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 in Poland, took place at the premises of the Terezín Memorial under the title Terezín – The Place of Memory. In addition to supplying the participants with lectures on less accented issues related to the Terezín ghetto (postwar reflection on the Holocaust in different European countries, cinematic reflection on Terezín, the development of Terezín as a place of memory, projection of the Polish-Czechoslovak film Border Aisle dealing with an uprising in the Warsaw ghetto) and a tour around the former Terezín ghetto, the seminar brought a unique opportunity for the Polish and Czech teachers to meet for human and professional reasons. Experience was shared not only during the workshop, built on comparison of methods used in Polish and Czech schools, but also in the evenings after the end of the official programme.
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