Jiří Lauscher was born in Terezín on September 14, 1901 to parents Siegfried and Anna. The family lived in the premises of the local watermills where Siegfried served as a clerk. Shortly after her husband´s death in 1911, the widowed Anna with both son

A seminar for Czech schoolteachers, devoted to the use of video testimonies of Holocaust survivors at schools, was held in Terezín between June 12 and 14, 2020. The workshop took place in conjunction with the organizations Zachor – Holocaust Remembranc

Some readers may find this question futile. The Terezín historiographic sources assert that a commando of 342 men fit for work did arrive in the Sudeten Barracks (E I) on November 24, 1941, that the Ghetto´s gate closed behind them and at that mom

In January 2020, the Terezín Memorial opened its new historical-documentary exhibition devoted to transports, vitally significant events in the life of Terezín inmates. Even though these topics are briefly explored in the main exhibition of the Ghetto

An aluminum scale model of the Soviet fighter aircraft Polikarpov I-16 stands out as a unique exhibit in the collections of the Terezín Memorial. It was made in the workshops of the Gestapo Police Prison in Terezín´s Small Fortress by inmates Josef For

Interestingly, the current offer of educational programs the Department of Education for school groups includes a project of research-focused and creative activities highlighting a cloth figurine of a black doggie. In fact, the original figurine of the

Between mid-March and mid-May 2020, when the Terezín Memorial was closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, its employees in all the Departments were working on many different projects. For instance, on the reconstruction of some i

Hana Hnátová, née Lustigová, was born in Prague on June 20, 1924 into a Czech-speaking family of a trained sales clerk and a seamstress, née Löwyová. The Lustig family lived in Prague´s Libeň quarter. The economic crisis in the 1930s dramatically affec

Quite recently, the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Education has expanded its offer of educational programs for school groups from the Czech Republic, introducing several new workshops. One of them is devoted to the Nazi propaganda in the Terezín Ghe

In 2019 the Department of Documentation of the Terezin Memorial entered in its collection 21 new inventory numbers, comprising a total of 323 individual items. Approximately two thirds of the documents were acquired by gift, the rest by purchase. The T

At the beginning of October 2019, seminar for more than 30 Czech teachers took place in the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiencim in Poland. This kind of seminar has been organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with the Czech Ministry o

Michaela Vidláková was born to Irma and Jiří Lauscher in Prague on December 30, 1936.  Her mother was a teacher in the Jewish elementary school in Prague´s Jáchymova Street, her father was employed in various companies, working mostly in clerical

In the fall of 2019 the Terezín Memorial obtained by gift a valuable set of 22 works of art created in the Terezín Ghetto. These include two watercolor drawings by Edita Hartmanová and twenty works made by her son Jan Hartman (primarily watercolor Indi

Lecturers of the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Education have drafted a methodology for a new workshop entitled Mummy, Are We Germans or Czechs?. This is featured among the Department´s educational programs offered to Czech school groups. Its title

Since the spring of 2019 you have had an opportunity to browse through the Internet website called Being at School in the War Years, the outcome of a project of the same name carried out jointly by the Terezín Memorial, the National Pedagogical Museum

Dear readers,   we turn to you with the following courteous request: on the chance that you have still in your possession any kind of documents, objects or photographs linked to the Nazi persecution on the territory of the Czech Republic, please,

Seventy-five years will have elapsed in the autumn of 2019 since the time when – between September 28 and October 28, 1944 – more than 18,000 inmates left the Terezín Ghetto in 11 transports heading to the East. Charlotta Burešová: Transport, PT 585. ©

The traditional Terezín Commemoration was held for the 74th time in the National Cemetery on May 19, 2019. This event is organized by the Terezín Memorial in conjunction with the Ústí Region, the Terezín Initiative, the Federation of Jewish Communities

The winners of the Terezín Memorial´s 25th literary competition and the 23rd arts contest, named after their initiator, co-founder and sponsor, the Hana Greenfield Memorial competitions, this time held under the joint title I Am Here Without My Family,

In 2018 the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Documentation obtained by gift a total of eighteen written documents and photographs connected with the history of the Gestapo Prison in the Small Fortress Terezín, the Terezín Ghetto and other Nazi persecut

Two years elapsed in March this year since the opening of a touring exhibition entitled Being at School in the War Years (1938 – 1945) in the Faculty of Education of the Charles University in Prague. The display summed up the work carried out by the te

A seminar for Dutch teachers, entitled Learning about Theresienstadt in Terezin and co-sponsored by the Israeli Yad Vashem, was held in the Terezín Memorial between February 28 and March 3, 2019. In addition to a lecture and visits to the former Nazi r

Jan Roubínek, Director of the Terezín Memorial, received a copy of the picture by Petr Ginz from Andrew Feustel; Mrs. Eva Zažímalová, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on the left, April 2019. Photo: Radim Nytl. Monday, April 8

Jan Munk, a former long-time Director of the Terezín Memorial, died of a serious illness on May 12, 2019. Jan Munk. Photo: Terezín Memorial. Jan Munk stood at the helm of the Terezín Memorial between 1990 and 2017 and proved to be one of the leading li

A sad piece of news – the passing away of Mrs. Doris Grozdanovičová at the age of 93 – reached us late in the afternoon of August 21, 2019. Doris was born in Jihlava on April 7, 1926; after a time she moved with her family to Brno. During World War II

Bohumila Havránková, née Picková, was born into a Czech-speaking family in Liberec on November 17, 1927. Her mother, a trained dressmaker, stayed at home, while her father was a retail and wholesale trader in textile. While mother was a non-practicing

In 2018 the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Documentation succeeded in acquiring several new items for its photo archive collections. The single most interesting new arrival is the donation by a lady from Rychnov nad Kněžnou. This involves a set

Autumn 2018 saw several seminars for teachers, organized by the Terezín Memorial in conjunction with other institutions. The October seminar in the Federal Republic of Germany (see Bulletin No. 4/2018) linked up to the Czech-Polish seminar held for the

The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity was again marked in the Terezín Memorial in January 2018, this time by readings from a biog

Documentation on the Extant Traces from the Time of the Ghetto in the Topography of Today´s Terezín To date, the history of the Terezín Ghetto (1941 – 1945) has been examined and traced in many extensive studies, and yet the general public is still qui

The unique remembrance site, created by the former Ghetto inmates in the western section of Poterne III, strongly encourages researchers to engage in closer examination and continued search for its messages. As a result, the site inspired a workshop ca

A number of valuable new arrivals have been added to the collections of the Terezín Memorial this year. Some of them have been acquired thanks to a call for salvaging and preserving evidence and traces documenting Nazi persecution, that the Memorial ha

During the pedagogical seminar the teachers visited also the House of the Wannsee Conference. Photo: Jan Kaňa, Terezin Memorial. A four-day third-tier teacher-training seminar, held in cooperation with the Terezín Memorial, the Ministry of Education, Y

Fates of Two POWs Imprisoned in Terezín There were more than 200 POWs from Commonwealth countries among the inmates who passed through the Gestapo Police Prison in Terezín during World War II. This subject was discussed in an article called Prisoners o

Employees of Beit Theresienstadt in the Terezín Memorial; pictured on the left is Mr. Jan Roubínek, Director of the Terezín Memorial, shaking hands with Mrs. Dita Krausová (center); on the right is Mrs. Tamy Kinberg, Director of Beit Theresienstadt. Ph

Terezínská tryzna 2018. Foto: Radim Nytl, Památník Terezín The traditional Terezín Commemoration was held in the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress in Terezín on May 20, 2018. This act of remembrance is organized by the Terezín Memorial i

Ceremonial announcement of the results of the Terezín Memorial´s competitions in 2018 Stranger, Eliška Hlaváčková (15 years, Brno high school – Slovanské náměstí), third category – Erik Polák Award The winners of the Terezín Memorial´s 24th literary co

Terezín Memorial´s Department of Education would like to thank for the contributions in support of its youth educational programs We would like to thank those whose donations have contributed to the educational programs of the Terezín Memorial since th

Ilse Weber with her family, Jewish Museum in Prague. Ilse Weber´s correspondence, written during the 1930s and 40s, was published as a book in 2012. These are primarily letters sent by Ilse to Britain, to her best friend Lilian von Löwenadler, daughter

Leo Haas: Vilém Cantor u kartotéky, 1943, PT 14522, © David Haas, Daniel Haas, Ronny Haas, Michal Haas Foell. A major addition to the collections of the Terezín Memorial is a set of 39 drawings and paintings on paper, created in the Terezín Ghetto. In

The workshop entitled ”The Psychological Roots of Anti-Semitism“ is based on the outcome of a research project carried out by social psychologists who examine the psychological processes leading to extreme forms of violence towards different groups of

Working sheet with the features of the region, Educ. dept. Of the Terezin Memorial. Basically, there are two types of worksheets newly available for study during the educational programs for elementary schools and lower grades of high schools at the yo

Art-dramatic workshop for teachers, seminar „How to teach about the Holocaust“, spring 2018. The 18th seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust was held this year in the Jewish Museum in Prague and in the Terezín Memorial. The three-day seminar, attende

Cover of the book Somewhere There is Still a Sun (Někde ještě svítí slunce), the Czech version, publishing house P3K 2017. Less than two years ago the Terezín Memorial´s Newsletter reported on the publication of a book written by Michael Gruenbaum and

Exhibition marking the centenary of the end of World War I Terezín Memorial, foyer of the Small Fortress cinema September 13 – November 28, 2018 The First World War brought death and suffering to dozens of millions of people. The exhibition depicts thi

Beit Terezin Museum with a floor mosaic depicting the Terezín Ghetto. Even though the foundation stone to Beit Terezin (also known as Beit Theresienstadt) had been laid already in the late 1960s, the State of Israel officially recognized it as a Holoca

Cinerary Urn of Hermine Mayer as a Recollection of One of the Fates of Austrian and German Jews in the Terezín Ghetto Cinerary urn of Hermine Mayer today, Terezín Memorial, PT 377. One of the few 3D collection items, recalling the fate of more than 47,

Working groups during workshop, the attic theatre of the Magdeburg Barracks, photo: Linda Norris. Between November 17 and 19, 2017 the Terezín Memorial hosted representatives of the European members of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

Seminar attendees during their visit to Beit Terezin, November 2017. The 13th educational seminar was held at the turn of October and November 2017 in the Jerusalem memorial Yad Vashem. Co-organized by the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of the

Debate with Holocaust survivors – Mrs. Dagmar Lieblová (right) and Mr. Felix Kolmer (left) during a commemorative act on the Day of Remembrance for Holocaust Victims, Small Fortress, Terezín Memorial, photo: Radim Nytl Attended by officials representin

(June 27, 1927 – November 5, 2017) Eva with her classmates from a Karlín school (second right), first half of the 20th century, Eva Štichová´s private archive. Eva was born in 1927 in Nový Bohumín as Eva Beldová. At the age of two she moved with her pa

Homepage of the Terezín Memorial´s new website. Since September 2017 people interested in what is happening in the Terezín Memorial or planning the visit of the place may do so thanks to its new website presentation. The new web pages feature a modern

A set of surgical instruments from the Police Prison in the Small Fortress, probably the property of a surgeon-inmate, Terezin Memorial, PT 14139. In the second half of 2017 the Terezín Memorial staged an exhibition offering its visitors a very interes

Workshop during a seminar in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, led by Miroslav Obstarczyk, photo: Helena Palová. A third-tier teacher-training seminar, organized since 2002 in conjunction with the Czech Republic´s Ministry of Education, Youth and Ph

10. Shoa Monument in Jindřichův Hradec, photo: Marta Léblová. A monument commemorating the victims of racial persecution during the years 1939–1945 was unveiled at a ceremony in the city´s Zaskostelecký Square on Sunday, May 21, 2017. The author of the

Charlotta Burešová: Girl in a Hoop Skirt, 1942-1945, Památník Terezín, PT 3423, © MUDr. Radim Bureš. Charlotta (Lotka) Burešová was born in Prague on November 4, 1904 into the family of tailor Gustav Kompert and his wife Steffi. She studied at the Prag

Sára Vykrutová, Dream of a Small Terezín Inmate, age: 8 years. The winners of the Terezín Memorial’s 23rd literary competition and the 21st art contest, named The Hana Greenfield Memorial in honor of the initiator, co-founder and sponsor of the competi

Early May 2017 was a major milestone for the Terezín Memorial. The institution was just then celebrating the 70 years that had elapsed since its foundation. What Were Its Early Days? Jan Munk during his speech on the 70th anniversary of the Terezín Mem

A postage stamp booklet designed by Jan Ungrád was also issued to mark the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Terezín Memorial. Each of the eight stamps in the booklet features both works of art by leading Czech artists, artifacts kept in the co

Preview of the touring exhibition Being at School in the War Years at the Charles University’s Faculty of Education, May 2017, photo: Radim Nytl, Památník Terezín.Back in 2015, the Terezín Memorial, the J.A. Komenský National Pedagogical Museum and Lib

Doris with grazing sheep during her imprisonment in the Terezín Ghetto, 1943, Památník Terezín, FAPT, A 4423. She was born in Jihlava on April 7, 1926, into the family of Karel and Růžena Schimmerling. In 1933 the family moved to Brno where father work

British and Danish educators in the seminar room in the former Magdeburg Barracks Seminar for British and Danish schoolteachers was held in the Terezín Memorial between February 17 and 20, 2017 for the third year. The seminar organizers – The Holocaust

View of the electronic version of The Database of the Czech Inmates of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937-1945, May 2017 In 2011 and 2012 the Terezín Memorial’s Newsletters (issues Nos. 2/2011 and 4/2012) briefed on the newly prepared search engine

Charlotta Burešová: Inside the post-office, 1944, Památník Terezín, PT 5544, © MUDr. Radim Bureš. For the Ghetto Command, correspondence through postal services, as a tool of communication between inmates and the outside world, was the most closely mon

Christina Chavarria (USA) presents her workshop Approaches to Learning about Holocaust Denial, November 2016, photo: Pavel Straka, Památník Terezín.The 16th annual seminar ”Holocaust in Education“, attended by 53 Czech schoolteachers, took place in the

Just as last year, 2016, proved to be rich in various events held by the Terezín Memorial, during this year, too, one can look forward to a number of Memorial-sponsored events. On January 27, we commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day,

Cover page of the book Jews in Dobříš.Last November, author Jindřiška Rosenbaumová (born in 1983, née Telenská) published a book called Židé v Dobříši (Jews in Dobříš). On seventy pages, the writer seeks to trace the history of the local Jewish communi

A wedding photo of Věra and Jindřich Jetel. Private archive of Ludmila Chládková.Events That Shook the Ghetto During the three and a half years of its existence (from November 24, 1941 until May 1945) the Terezín Ghetto passed through specific developm

Newly open to public areas of the columbarium of the Ghetto Terezín, October 2016, photo: Radim Nytl, Památník Terezín. On the occasion of the remembrance events marking the 75th anniversary of the start of deportations of the Jewish inhabitants from t

Former hostels of the wardresses in the Memorial Ravensbrück, October 2016, photo: Martin Hemelík. For ten years now, the Terezín Memorial has been cooperating with the Ravensbrück Memorial in holding third-level seminars, taking place once in two year

Participants of the seminar in the Yad Vashem memorial, November 2016, photo: Petra Pěničková, Památník Terezín. The fourth-level educational seminar for Czech teachers was held in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem already for the twelfth time. Co-o

Historian of the Terezin Memorial Tomáš Fedorovič during the opening of the exhibition, July 2016, photo: Radim Nytl, Památník Terezín.The exhibition Testimony of the Town’s Changes – Terezín in the Building Plans and Documents of the Jewish Self-Admin

Anna Janotková: Fairytale from Terezin, 7 years. The traditional announcement of the names of the winners of the 22nd literary and 20th fine-art competitions, held by the Terezín Memorial as the Hana Greenfield Memorial in honor of the initiator and co

Participants of the project Schoolchild in the war years, pupils of the primary school T.G. Masaryk, Milovice, Juni 2016, photo: Radim Nytl, Památník Terezín. Young researchers engaged in the educational project “Schoolchild in the War Years”, co-spons

The CD cover Lost Songs, 2016, authors: students of the Secondary school of trade and services in Teplice. In January 2016, the quartet known as Flowered Horse recorded a CD entitled Lost Songs in the premises of the Magdeburg Barracks. This was part o

Debate with the witness of the Terezín ghetto, Mrs. Eva Štichová, photo: Terezín Memorial A seminar for Polish teachers was under way in the former Magdeburg Barracks in Terezín between June 10 and 12, 2016. Organized by the Terezín Memorial, together

Lisa, 1924 – 1930. Private archiv of Lisa Miková. Lisa Miková was born in 1922 into a Prague family of assimilated Jews. According to her own narrative, even though she visited the synagogue with her mother and her family celebrated some Jewish feasts,

Workshop done by the Museum of the Romani Culture, Brno during the seminar „How to teach about the Holocaust?“, 2016, photo: Jana Havlínová, Památník Terezín. Seminar for elementary and secondary school teachers called How to Teach About the Holocaust

The third seminar for British and Danish educationists, co-organized by institutions in Denmark (Danish Institute for International Studies), Britain (Holocaust Educational Trust), Israel (Yad Vashem) and naturally also in the Czech Republic (Terezín M

Josef Čapek: The study of women, the date probably 1941 – 1942, Buchenwald; PT 2798, Památník Terezín. A festive preview of the exhibition entitled Josef Čapek – Painter, Poet, Writer was held in the lobby of the cinema in Terezín´s Small Fortress on A

The Book „Somewhere There is Still a Sun“. Source: https://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-There-Still-Sun-Holocaust/dp/1442484861, 30. 6. 2016, 13:24. A book called “Somewhere There is Still a Sun” with a subheading “A Memoir of the Holocaust” was published

MÚ AAV, AAV ČR, f. Zdeněk Nejedlý, The collection of photos, k. F3, inv. č. 133, graduation photo of Zdenka Nejedlá, June 1927. In addition to lack of food, work exhaustion and mistreatment by the supervisory personnel, the inhuman conditions of impris

The building of the former laundry in the Small Fortress, photo: Jana Havlínová, Památník Terezín. The exhibition of the former prison laundry of the former Gestapo Police Prison in the Small Fortress, Terezín, expanded in autumn 2015 after the reconst

Participants of the seminar in the study room in the Ghetto Museum, photo: Pavel Straka, Památník Terezín. Between 26th and 29th November 2015, the Terezín Memorial hosted the 15th annual seminar “Holocaust in Education” attended by 44 Czech teachers.

Jo Spier: Disinfection (disinsectization) of the buildings, Terezín, 1943 – 1945; oficial production, Terezin Memorial, PT 4343, © Peter E. Spier, Dr. Thomas Spier, Celine Spier Polak The Terezín ghetto was to serve merely as a stop for Jewish prisoner

From the student´s conference in Banska Bystrica, September 2015, photo: Jan Špringl, Terezin Memorial Two years ago, the Terezín Memorial was addressed by the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) located in Banská Bystrica with a request to co

Participants of the seminar at the attic in the Magdeburg Barracks, September 2015, photo: Pavel Straka, Terezin Memorial From 2nd to 4th October 2015, a seminar for Czech and Polish teachers, jointly conceived with the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau

During guided-tour in the State museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, October 2015, photo: Jaroslava Tihlařiková From 8th to 11th October 2015, the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in cooperation with the Terezín Memorial and the Czech Ministry of Education hosted

At the present days a project called Being at School in the War Years (1938 – 1945) is going on at schools of the Czech Republic. It is organized by the Terezin Memorial, the Czech Republic, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, The National

Evelina Merová, 1935, private archive of Evelina Merová Evelina Merová was born on 25th December 1930 to an assimilated Jewish family of Ilse and Emil Landa (Father’s original surname being Löwy). She had a ten-year-older half-sister Lisa. The Landas l

Simon Gašpárek: We draw fro better future, 6 years On 9th June 2015 in the cinema hall of the Ghetto Museum in Terezín, a ceremony was held to announce the winners of the 21st literary and 19th fine art annual competitions of the Terezín Memorial, whic

Blanka Stehlíková (right), the author of the exhibition script, during the opening ceremony, May 2015, photo: Radim Nytl, Památník Terezín In May 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the repressive facilities in Terezín and Li

Seminar for Polish teachers, May 2015, photo: Jolanta Wójcik, ABSM In late May 2015, 30 Polish teachers visited the Terezín Memorial to take part in the third year of the seminar for Polish teachers, organized by the Terezín Memorial in collaboration w

For Spring 2016 the Terezín Memorial lists two terms of the first-level seminars on teaching about the Holocaust, which have been organized since 2000 under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of Education at the Jewish Museum in Prague and in the Terez

Certificate of transport number for Bert Kanter, issued by the Jewish self-government in the Terezín ghetto. A 10754V First transport of Danish Jews with 83 people arrived in the Terezin ghetto on 5th October 1943. Within the next ten days their amount

Poster for the exhibition Sophie’s Choice – The Czech Way, author: Miroslav Veselý In the first quarter of 2015, the Terezín Memorial hosted an exhibition of Judita Matyášová “Sophie’s Choice – The Czech Way”. The exhibition presents the fate of 80 Jew

We would like to draw your attention to the announcement of a new pupil and student project of the Terezín Memorial and its partners: the Terezín Initiative Institute and the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius in Prague, presente

British-Danish seminar, Magdeburg Barracks Attic After two and a half years, a seminar for educators from Denmark took place again, this time enriched by the presence of their British colleagues. The seminar was held from 13th to 16th February 2015, wi

Book “With a Clear Goal and Full Power” This new publication of the Terezín Memorial introduces the reader to the time of German occupation of the Sudetenland in October 1938, later also the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. “With a Clear Goal and

Prisoners on the benches at the Terezín square in the time of liberation, FAPT 4588 Towards the end of 1944 many people already felt that the end of the war was approaching. In the Battle of the Bulge, western allies troops thwarted the attempts of the

Workshop in the House of the Wannsee Conference, October 2014, photo: J. Špringl In early October 2014, the Ravensbrück Memorial hosted for the 5th time the 3rd grade seminar for Czech teachers organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with the

In late October and early November 2014, a group of 18 teachers from all over the Czech Republic took part in an educational seminar held in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Israeli Jerusalem. This seminar, organized by the Yad Vashem Memorial, the Czech Min

From 27th to 30th November 2014, the Terezín Memorial hosted the 14th annual seminar on “Holocaust in Education”, attended by 36 Czech teachers. While the first stage of seminars titled “How to teach about the Holocaust” is lectured only by Czech exper

Period postcard from Theresienstadt 1916, barracks in the Small Fortress, FAPT 12004Soon after the construction of the Terezín fortress complex in the late 18th century one part of it, the Small Fortress, began to serve as a prison. Perhaps the most fa

In connection with the imprisonment of Gavrilo Princip in the Small Fortress and his disease, the personality of Dr. Jan Levit is to be mentioned. Karel Vik: Dr. Levit’s Surgery, PT 9177, Terezín Memorial, ©Milena Jeřábková, Jiřina Komárková Jan Levit

František Noha, FAPT 2976 In the last year of the World War I, the background of the Austro-Hungarian Empire witnessed increasingly frequent manifestations of resistance and opposition to the continuing conflict. Not only wishes to terminate this too l

Since September 2014 the Terezín Memorial has expanded its expositions with a permanent exhibition Truth and Lies. Filming in the Terezín ghetto 1942 – 1945 dedicated to the Nazi films created in the Terezin ghetto within 1942 – 1945. The exhibition ha

The data in this article is based on the Terezín Memorial Exhibition “Through a Slip of Paper a Person’s Destiny is Decided[…]”, which was created on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the last wave of transports from the Terezín ghetto to Ausch

The lecture by Vojtech Blodig during the seminar for Polish teachers. Photo: Památník Terezín At the weekend of 30th May – 1st June 2014, a training seminar for Polish teachers called Terezín – The Place of Memory was held. Less than thirty teachers fr

Last weekend in April, the Terezín Memorial hosted the 8th Meeting of Czech and German Youth, organized by Tandem, whose main activity is the coordination of youth exchange between these two countries. The event was attended by approximately 80 Czechs

In the first half of April, Terezin was visited by European Parliament President Martin Schulz in the company of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. Both politicians laid wreaths at the National Cemetery near the Small Fortress and, accompanied by Deputy

On June 12th 2014, an awarding ceremony of the 18th year of the art and the 20th year of the literary contests of the Terezín Memorial were held  in the Ghetto Museum under the title “Do I really feel so good in Theresienstadt? …”. The theme had been

On 18th May 2014 at the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress in Terezín, a traditional commemorative event was held to honour the victims of Nazi persecution . The event was organized by the Central Committee of the Czech Union of Freedom F

„The Gate of Death“ – the way to the place of execution in the Small Fortress The safety repressive authorities of Nazi Germany often introduced euphemistic expressions to cover the true nature of their approach to the population in the controlled area

Jiri Langer (1916 – 1945) Jiří Langer with his family, FAPT 8551 After his childhood spent in Brandys nad Labem Jiri trained for an electrical engineer and in 1934 he obtained his certificate of apprenticeship. In the second half of the 30s he started

Visit of the Block 10 in Auschwitz I Thorough inspections of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps, special visit to publicly inaccessible block 10 associated with horrible experiments on women, information on the conservation laboratories of the

Meeting with the survivors – Helga Hošková-Weissová and Lisa Miková The 15th spring season of the seminars for teachers on “How to teach about the Holocaust” took place in Prague’s Jewish Museum and the Terezin Memorial. They were attended by more than

Transport of Jews from the Terezin Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Autumn 1944 The historical-documentary exhibition of the Terezin Memorial was created to honour the 70th anniversary of the last wave of transports from the Terezin ghetto to the concen

The Terezin Initiative is anassociation of former prisoners of Terezin and Lodz ghettos from the Czech lands and their direct descendants. Its objective is to keep, in a worthy way, the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust. Members of the

Dagmar as a five-year-old girl with her younger sister and parents, 1934. Private archive of Dagmar Lieblova The life story of Mrs. Dagmar begins in 1929, when the Fantls cheered over the new born baby girl Dagmar in Kutna Hora. About three years later

Already the 9th advanced seminar for Czech teachers was held in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, organized by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Yad Vashem Memorial and Terezin Memorial. The seminar, which was held between 27th October a

Hana Greenfield On 27th January 2014, when the world commemorated the Holocaust Memorial Day, sad news arrived in Terezin in the early evening – Hana Greenfield had died. Born in Kolin in the former Czechoslovakia, prisoner of the Terezin Ghetto, Ausch

Activities: 28th April 2014: Jom Ha´Soa, commemorative event in memory of the Shoah victims, the courtyard in front of the prayer room, Dlouha St., Terezin, beginning at 2 pm. 18th May 2014: Anniversary of the last execution in the Small Fortress, form

Arnošt Klein: View of part of the vegetable garden in the Terezin ghetto. PT 3638 “Agriculture” or Landwirtschaft was part of the Economic Department of the ghetto administration. Its beginnings were difficult because basically everything that is neede

Doris Grozdanovičová, born Schimerlingová, during pasture of the sheep, FAPT 4423 The Terezin historiography has already had to deal with many inadvertently spread myths, one of them being the question of the true origin of the flock of sheep in Terezi

Cooperation in education between the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Terezin Memorial has been on for more than 10 years. Polish historians and lecturers regularly come to the seminars in Terezin, where they lecture and lead workshops (a group

Perpetrators of Crimes. The SS repressive staffs in Terezin and Litomerice, 1940 – 1945 The exposition Perpetrators of Crimes presents by means of 37 gripping panels the SS members who participated in the brutal treatment of Jewish and non-Jewish inmat

New year of the art and literary contests of the Terezin Memorial The Educational Department of the Terezin Memorial announced a new year of the art and literary contests for children and youth with the topic “I am very fine in Terezin….?”.  More infor

Joseph Eduard Adolf Spier (1900 – 1978) „Jewish administration communacition” with a poetic picture of Terezin by Jo Spier, A 3469 Jo Spier was a famous Dutch artist, author of humorous illustrations and caricatures depicting everyday life before the W

Terezin commemoration 2013 and memorial of the last execution in the Small Fortress The President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman and director of the Terezin Memorial Jan Munk, Terezin Commemoration 2013 On Sunday 19th May 2013 two commemorative acts

When a flood wave began to pick up in strength in Southern Bohemia at the end of May 2013, it was becoming more and more certain that water would come again into the Terezin town after years as well as into the Terezin Memorial. On Monday 3rd June low-

David Šulík (aged 13, Liberec): Why did the muses not keep silent in the ghetto XIX year of the literary and XVII year of the art competitions organized by the Memorial should commemorate the 70th anniversary of a number of first-night cultural events

Comenius EduMedia Medal for the project Schoolchild in the Protectorate German Scientific Society for Pedagogy and Information (Die Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information e.V., www.gpi-online.de) dealing in multimedia, educational technology and po

10th October 2013 – 31st December 2013: Mr. and Mrs. Turek – Ceramic Objects, cinema foyer in the Small Fortress, Terezin  16th October 2013 – 21st December 2013: Executors of Crime. Repressive apparatus of the SS in Terezin and Litomerice, 1940 – 1945

This year marks 20 years of activities of the Terezin Memorial Education Department, the workplace which mainly focuses on direct work with school children by organizing training seminars on the role of Terezin during World War II. Initially it was not

Report on the arrival of the transport XXIV/1 from Holland to the ghetto Terezin in April 1943. PT 11017. Curt announcement in daily order of 23rd April 1943 let the ghetto prisoners in Terezin know about the arrival of transport marked XXIV/1 with 295

In the spring, within 15 – 17th March and 22 – 24th March 2013, two first-grade workshops for teachers on “How to teach about the Holocaust” took place in Terezin. This year’s 14th run was attended by a total of 85 Czech teachers. They arrived in Terez

1st September 2013  –  Kever Avot Commemoration at 11 am, crematorium at the Jewish cemetery

The beginnings of cooperation between Hana Greenfield (left) and the education department of the Terezín Memorial, then led by Ms. Ludmila Chládková She was born in Kolin on 3rd November 1926 and along with her elder sister Irena she grew up in a Czech

The project Schoolchild in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia aims to give young people and adults insight into the reality of the Nazi totalitarian regime in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia using examples of their everyday life, or of the

Participants of the seminar in the streets of of the Old Town in Jerusalem Between 21st – 28th October 2012, the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem was holding a fourth-grade seminar for Czech teachers, which is organized as a follow-up meeting to the fi

Rachel Donnelly from the Imperial War Museum presenting her workshop “Touches of the Past“Almost a tradition has become the seminar for Czech teachers called Holocaust in the Education, which is organized by the Terezín Memorial in cooperation with the

Jiří Diamant, 1948 Jiri Diamant was deported to the Terezin ghetto by transport Ad from Brno on 23rd March 1942 together with his parents and a younger brother. He stayed at the boys’ Heim L 417 for many months, then he and his family were sent to the

In late August 2012, French language again sounded through the Terezin Magdeburg barracks. The Terezin Memorial hosted already for the third time French teachers who came here under the auspice of the Maison d´Izieu Memorial for a one-week educational

Danish teachers at the attic of the former Magdeburg Barracks, Terezin Memorial The Terezin Memorial, and in particular the former Terezin ghetto is the goal of many Danish schoolchildren. They come here to see places where 466 Danish Jews were interne

Seal „Trip Advisor“ in the former Magdeburg Barracks International tourism portal TripAdvisor acknowledged the service quality that the Terezin Memorial provides to its visitors and awarded the three main objects – Small Fortress, Ghetto Museum and for

Lore Kleiber during the guided-tour in the Haus der Wannsee Konferenz In early October a follow-up seminar (3rd level) for Czech teachers organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Education took place in the former Rav

Over a year ago, website search engines of persecuted people were made accessible  to the general public (e. g. the database of Gestapo police prisoners in the Small Fortress, inmates of the concentration camp Litomerice, database of victims of the Ter

Seminars for Czech teachers “How to teach about the Holocaust”, 2 terms: March 15 – 17, 2013 and March 22 – 24, 2013.

Announcement – arrival of the German and Austrian transports to the Terezin ghetto in Daily order; A3262 “On 2nd June 1942, 50 people arrived in the Terezin ghetto by transport I/1 from Berlin.” In such a curt way did so far only Protectorate prisoners

Memorial plaque, Castle Jeneralka, Prague © Roman Kelbich A memorial plaque was unveiled in ceremony at  Jeneralka Castle in Prague 6 on 11th June 2012. The plaque is to commemorate 46 children who became orphans after repressions during so called Heyd

XVIIIth literary and XVIth art competitions aimed at drawing attention to the 65th anniversary of the Terezin Memorial establishment. Therefore, the same theme “Memory, Remembrance, Commemoration” was chosen for both of them. There were 599 individual

Terezin Memorial, the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, Museum of the Romani Culture in Brno and the Jewish Museum in Prague prepare for spring 2013 two seminars „How to teach about the Holocaust“ for Czech teachers in the terms: March 15 –

21st December 2012  Ceremony on the occasion of the 111th birth anniversary of Milada                                Horakova, Krankenrevir, Small Fortress 16th October – 3rd December 2012: Memories, documentary exhibition on the occasion of           

14-year-old Jindřiška Nováková, who took the Kubiš bicycle after the assassination of R. Heydrich was also arrested in the gestapo prison in the Small Fortress. From Terezin she was deported to KL Mauthausen were she was killed on October 23, 1942, APT

Between 24th – 26th January 2012, there took place the first series of lectures for teachers on Holocaust, Holocaust denial and Holocaust education, thanks to the cooperation of 4 organisations: Israeli Yad Vashem Memorial, Jewish Museum in Prague, the

Leaflet to the exhibition „How can we live on?“ “Me and the War” A collection of pictures with the title “Me and the War” from the Terezin Memorial competitions in 2009 was on display in the Information Centre in Kravare near Ceska Lipa starting 6th Ma

Inside the „closet“, small dormitory, APT 6563 Several years ago, the Terezin Memorial opened to the public a prayer room from the ghetto times at 17 Dlouha Street in Terezin. In the attic above the prayer room, remains of a “closet”, small dormitories

4th September 2012 – 20th January 2013 – Exhibition: Posters of Terezin Memorial to the 65th anniversary of its establishment (continuation), documentary exhibition, foyer of the Small Fortress cinema 9th September 2012 – Kever Avot Remembrance Ceremon

In May 2012 we are going to commemorate already the 65th anniversary of the Terezin Memorial’s establishment. Let us view the chain of events attached to this important institution. 6th May 1947 The Czechoslovak government established the Memorial of N

Helga Weissova – Hošková (born 1929) Helga Hošková in December 1941, 3 days before she was deported to Terezin, in: Catalogue to the exhibition in the Ghetto Museum, Terezin Memorial, 1993 In 1939, when the Protectorate was established and the persecut

Memorial for the remembrance of the death march in Horni Chribska, mass grave, photo: Jan Špringl In the course of 2011 the first part of work on a new Memorial’s project called “Tracing Little Memorials” was concluded. The objective of the project is

J. A. Haidler during the performance, photo: Pavel Straka In autumn 2011, higher educational workshops for teachers were again organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with other institutions. In late October, for the sixth time already, a grou

Miroslav Kubik (born on 7th November 1925) In the report for K H Frank written by Kladno Gestapo he was identified as one of the “principal plotters“ of the attempt on A. Bauer’s life, thus in fact already very soon after his arrest his further fate wa

Helena and Ivan Klimovi with the group of French teachers at the attic of the Magdeburg Barracs Already for the second time a group of French teachers arrived in Terezin Memorial to learn about the history of Terezin repressive facilities from the time

From the meeting to the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the deportations, Dagmar Lieblová On 16th October 2011, at 70th anniversary of the beginning of Jewish deportations from the Czech lands, a meeting of former Terezin ghetto inmates was held.

Tables for the identification of Jews and 70 years have passed since the sad events in Autumn 1941. What had preceded them? What did 15th March 1939, the day of occupation by Nazi Germany, mean for solving the Jewish question? As early as on 21st June

Karel Polacek, FA 2849 Karel Polacek was born in 1892 at Rychnov nad Kneznou, where he spent his childhood. Later, he lived and worked in Prague. In the period between two world wars, he was respected as one of the major writers of humour and satire. H

Picture by Nikola Polzerova sent to the TM competition, 1st place in 3rd category, without name The topic of the 17th literary and 15th art competitions organized by the TM, and designed for pupils of elementary and students of secondary schools, was g

Lecture for Slovak educators by Petr Koura Between  25th – 29th June 2011, 4th seminar for Slovak educators took place at the Terezin Memorial. This time it was a follow-up seminar since most of the participants had been here a year ago, and, due to th

16th October 2011:     70th anniversary of the Terezin ghetto establishment; meeting of former Terezin                                  inmates 22nd December 2011:            Commemorative ceremony to mark the birth of Milada Horakova, memory hall    

The building Terezin town hall in time, when it was the seat of the court The Terezin involuntary community gave birth to binding legal standards, which were exercised there throughout its entire duration. “Each ghetto inhabitant is obliged to obey all

On 16th March 2011 the Terezin Memorial gave a presentation in the National Archive in Prague, and made the public acquainted with their new website, and, primarily, with the newly-processed browsers of prosecuted people as well as databases of collect

Prezentace výstupů z workshopů účastníky semináře The dates 4th – 6th March and 18th – 20th March 2011 belonged to already 12th year of the first-grade seminars for teachers with the title “How to teach about the Holocaust”. The seminars were attended

The third Sunday in May in Terezin traditionally belonged to the remembrance ceremony – a memorial event to commemorate the victims of the Terezin Nazi repressive facilities – the police Gestapo prison in the Small Fortress and the Terezin Jewish ghett

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Leo Baeck, FA 5269-1 Leo Baeck (1873 – 1956) was undoubtedly one of the most prominent personalities of the Terezín ghetto.  Prior to being deported to Terezín, he was active as the Chief Rabbi of Berlin, gave university lectures and held positions in

Leaflet to the exhibition “War and I” in Litoměřice, author: Tomáš Vejmělka In order to prevent the works of winners of the Terezín Memorial student contests from gathering dust somewhere in storage, our Education Department prepared a travelling exhib

Lecture by E. Zuroff in Yad Vashem On 11 – 22 October 2010, a seminar for teachers took place at the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, organized by the Terezín Memorial in co-operation with the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the inter

The first wave of transports with Jews from Slovakia took place from March through October 1942. At that time, the public had already heard rumours to the effect that the Jews were being sent to their deaths is gas chambers rather than – unlike what th

One of the things that made Terezín stand out among the ghettoes of Europe was its rich cultural and spiritual activities. The SS commandants however never officially defined the cultural and spiritual life of Terezín by any order or decree. They took

Mr. and Mrs. Klíma during their meeting with French teachers at the attic of the former Magdeburg Barracks The late summer and autumn of 2010 at the Terezín Memorial’s Education Department was marked by educational seminars for teachers. At the end of

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The second Jewish elder Dr. Paul Eppstein (standing) addressing the council of elders, A 806_2 The summer of 1944 in Terezín was marked by the visit from the International Red Cross delegation and the film shooting that followed. Both of these brought

Students of the Secondary Industry School of Ostrava – Vítkovice, Šárka Kunčická, Vojtěch Žižka and Petr Langer, supervised by Mgr. Lenka Hrušková and in cooperation with the City Committee of the Czech Association of Liberation Fighters prepared the s

Fabrice Teicher of the Education Department, Memorial de la Shoah during his lecture On the days of 19 to 25 July 2010, a seminar for Czech teachers took place, organized by the French Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris in cooperation with the Terezín Memor

7. Mirka Langhamerová of the Terezín Memorial presented a new database of former prisoners at the conference In June 2010 it was 70 years since Gestapo police prison was established in Terezín’s Small Fortress, thus becoming one of the dismal symbols o

The topic of the 16th annual edition of the literary contest and the 14th edition of the art contest of the Terezín Memorial was the question “How are we to live on?”, which intended to inspire young writers and artists to contemplate and work with the

Seminars for teachers: November – 22 October 2010: Seminar for teachers at Yad Vashem Memorial, Israel 25 – 28 November 2010: International seminar for teachers in Terezín 22 December 2010 – Commemoration act on the occasion of Milada Horáková’s birth

The early spring of 1945 found the ghetto putting on a front once again. And once again, everything was being mended, renovated, just like the year before (in the spring of 1944). The “redecorated” town was to serve as a proof of the care supposedly pr

On the day Berlin was conquered by the Soviet troops, 2 May 1945, when the defeat of Nazi Germany was already irreversible, the last and historically largest execution took place in Terezín’s Gestapo police prison. Six days before the Red Army arrived

The beginning of spring 2010 was traditionally marked in Terezín by the “How to teach about the Holocaust” seminars for teachers, organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, the Education and Cultural Centre of the Je

In April, on the day when the world remembers the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (19 April 1943), is the Holocaust Remembrance Day – Yom HaShoah. This day is annually commemorated by the Terezín Memorial as well. Each year, the names of those who

Exhibitions 5 August 2010 – Lenka Vilhelmová – Empty landscape, devoid of people (graphic art – continuation of exhibition) exhibition premises of yard IV of the Small Fortress 2 September 2010 – Martin Tomášek – Associative Space 2. – drawings, painti

May 2010 will mark the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II and thus also of the abolishment of the Terezín Ghetto. This article aims to sum up the events that took place in Terezín in the final months of the war, in 1945. The end of 1944 and th

In Newsletter 4/2009,  we brought you information on the  book “The Terezín Ghetto, Holocaust and Our Time”. Presently,  aside from the printed book, the publication including video recordings is also available in electronic form – HERE.

From 19 through 30 October 2009, the fifth edition of teachers’ seminar took place in the Yad Vashem Memorial, Jerusalem. This time, 21 Czech teachers participated, earning their place in the seminar by the school project they headed. In Jerusalem, the

On 26 through 29 November 2009, the Terezín Memorial hosted the ninth edition of the Holocaust in Education seminar, co-organized by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports as a continuation of the How to teach about the Holocaust seminar. Th

„Who is Brundibár?“ A musical dedicated to all Jewish children who would never be allowed to grow up. Students of the Elementary Catholic School and Kindergarten in Třinec annually prepare a musical production for their parents, other schools in Třinec

Exhibitions 15 April 2010 – Jaromír Másler – paintings, Karel Peřina – sculptures exhibition rooms of yard IV of the Small Fortress 06 May 2010 – Exhibition of the newly acquired items from the Terezín Memorial collections exhibition rooms of yard IV o

Cover of the magazine “Rim Rim Rim” Over the last few issues of the Terezín Memorial Newsletter, we have introduced three children’s magazines that originated in the ghetto, namely Vedem, Domov and Kamarád. Before we go on to bring you more detailed in

Methodology: The Terezín Ghetto, Holocaust and Our Time Two years ago, the Terezín Memorial started to cooperate more closely with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education in Los Angeles. This cooperation resulted in use of v

On the occasion of the anniversary of the 16 October 1944 transport, there was a commemorative gathering held on 16 October 2009 the former Magdeburg barracks. Those in attendance commemorated the 65th anniversary of the autumn extermination transports

From 8 through 12 September 2009, the 16th annual edition of the Czech-Brandenburg teacher seminar took place on the premises of the Terezín Memorial. The event was organized by RAA Brandenburg, on behalf of Germany and the National Institute for Furth

For the fourth time already, a group of 36 Czech teachers took part in the III. grade of seminars for teachers in Auschwitz, organized by the Terezín Memorial along with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic and the Auschwitz

19 – 21 March 2010 :  Seminar for teachers “How to Teach the Holocaust” 26 – 28 March 2010 :   Seminar for teachers “How to Teach the Holocaust” Exhibitions: Lenka Vilhelmová, paintings and drawings, cinema foyer in the Small Fortress, opening, will ta

This article is the second part of story originally published in Newsletter 1/2009 which provided a general overview of the health care conditions in the former Gestapo police prison in Terezín. Throughout the period of the prison’s existence, the stat

For the 15th annual edition of the literary contest and the 13th annual edition of the art contest held by the Terezín Memorial, the I and the war theme was chosen in order to remind us of the horrors of World War II (this year being the 70th anniversa

The education department of the Terezín Memorial expands its educational activities beyond the scope of seminars organized for older and younger students. The department aims to make the history of the former Terezín Ghetto and the Ghetto Museum exposi

Holocaust is undoubtedly one of the mankind’s worst experiences in human history. It might appear impossible at first sight for someone to doubt the horrors of World War II or to dismiss them as inventions. Nevertheless, the voices of Holocaust deniers

1 – 4 October 2009:                     Pedagogical seminar in Auschwitz 19 – 30 October 2009:                 Pedagogical seminar in Yad Vashem, Israel 21. – 23 October 2009:                Conference of museums and memorials 26. – 29 November 2009:  

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