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 Terezín Memorial. These training courses are designed not only for teachers of history […]
Danish Jews in Terezín
First transport of Danish Jews with 83 people arrived in the Terezin ghetto on 5th October 1943. Within the next ten days their amount in the Terezín ghetto rose to more than 450, later reaching the final number of 466 persons. The position of Jews in Denmark before World War II was characterized by a […]
“Sophie’s Choice – The Czech Way“ in the Terezín Memorial
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 Jewish children who in 1939 attended preparatory courses for life in Palestine, which brought them to Denmark and saved them from the for Jewish population increasingly burdensome […]
New project Schoolchild in the War Years
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, presented under the title Schoolchild in the War Years. The project is more-leveled, students […]
