In the last year of the World War I, the background of the Austro-Hungarian Empire witnessed increasingly frequent manifestations of resistance and opposition to the continuing conflict. Not only wishes to terminate this too long lasting military conflict, but also starvation, non-payment to soldiers, mistreatment and denials of soldiers’ leaves instigated riots of the 3rd […]
Exhibition “Truth and Lies. Filming in the Terezín Ghetto 1942-1945“
Since September 2014 the Terezín Memorial has expanded its expositions with a permanent exhibition Truth and Lies. Filming in the Terezín ghetto 1942 – 1945 dedicated to the Nazi films created in the Terezin ghetto within 1942 – 1945. The exhibition has moved to Terezin from the Robert Guttmann Gallery of the Jewish Museum in […]
Autumn transports of 1944 from the ghetto to the East reflected in prisoners’ recollections
The data in this article is based on the Terezín Memorial Exhibition “Through a Slip of Paper a Person’s Destiny is Decided[…]”, which was created on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the last wave of transports from the Terezín ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in autumn 1944. The Terezín ghetto in summer 1944 The events […]
Seminar for Polish teachers
At the weekend of 30th May – 1st June 2014, a training seminar for Polish teachers called Terezín – The Place of Memory was held. Less than thirty teachers from different parts of Poland attended the three-day programme focused mainly on increasing knowledge about the Terezin ghetto and the Gestapo police prison in the Small […]
