Seminar for elementary and secondary school teachers called How to Teach About the Holocaust was held in Prague´s Jewish Museum and in the Terezín Memorial already for the 16th times. Run in two cycles (between February 19 and 21 and from March 4 to 6), the seminar was attended by more than 100 teachers. Each […]
Seminar for British and Danish educationists 2016
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 Memorial), took place between February 5 and 8. This time the seminar was focused more specifically on the topic of the Terezín […]
Josef Čapek exhibition
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 April 7 this year. The opening ceremony was attended by Mrs. Kristýna Váňová, Directress of the Karel Čapek Memorial, and the Czech actress Zdeňka Procházková, who recited several poems […]
”Somewhere There is Still a Sun“
A book called “Somewhere There is Still a Sun” with a subheading “A Memoir of the Holocaust” was published in the United States last year. Its author Michael Gruenbaum (*1930), who was born and grew up in Prague, was deported to the Terezín Ghetto together with his mother and sister in 1942. In his book […]
