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 Ministry of Education and the Terezín Memorial, is always the highlight in […]
International Seminar for Czech teachers at Terezín Memorial
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 experts, lecturers for this second stage are invited from foreign institutions as well. Their […]
Small Fortress in the times of WWI
Soon 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 famous prisoners from the period before the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic were those placed there during the First World War. They were members of […]
The Personality of Doctor Jan Levit and his connection to Terezin repressive facilities
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. Jan Levit was born in 1884 in Hořice at the foothills of the Giant Mountains. He was well familiar with the world of medicine from his childhood as his father […]
