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, with active participation of representatives of the following organizing institutions: Yad Vashem (Israel), Holocaust Educational Trust (UK), Danish Institute for […]
“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 Full Power” did the repressive apparatus built by Heinrich Himmler appear in our country. It involved the Security Police […]
Last months of the Terezín Ghetto, Gestapo Prison and of concentration camp Litoměřice
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 German Army to control the Western Front, and a few weeks later the Red Army launched a massive winter offensive on the Eastern Front. […]
Seminar for teachers at the Memorial Ravensbrück
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 Czech Ministry of Education and German partners. The first day of the seminar included a visit to the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin. Participants had […]
