On 27th January 2014, when the world commemorated the Holocaust Memorial Day, sad news arrived in Terezin in the early evening – Hana Greenfield had died. Born in Kolin in the former Czechoslovakia, prisoner of the Terezin Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, since 1952 living in Israel. After the war, which deprived her of mom, dad […]
Activities of the Terezin Memorial
Activities: 28th April 2014: Jom Ha´Soa, commemorative event in memory of the Shoah victims, the courtyard in front of the prayer room, Dlouha St., Terezin, beginning at 2 pm. 18th May 2014: Anniversary of the last execution in the Small Fortress, former execution ground in the Small Fortress, beginning at 9:00 pm. 18th May 2014: […]
SS farm in the Terezin ghetto
“Agriculture” or Landwirtschaft was part of the Economic Department of the ghetto administration. Its beginnings were difficult because basically everything that is needed in agriculture was missing. At the same time, prisoners assigned to work here were mostly untrained and often came from the cities; some of them had never held a hoe or other […]
Sheep from Lidice in Terezin – fact or myth?
The Terezin historiography has already had to deal with many inadvertently spread myths, one of them being the question of the true origin of the flock of sheep in Terezin. So far most visitors to the former ghetto have received information that the sheep reared in the ghetto came from the destroyed village of Lidice, […]
