On 16th October 2011, at 70th anniversary of the beginning of Jewish deportations from the Czech lands, a meeting of former Terezin ghetto inmates was held. The event was organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with the Terezin Initiative, an association of former Terezin ghetto inmates. It was patronized by Minister of Culture Jiri Besser. […]
Beginning of the ghetto in Terezín – anniversary of the first transports
70 years have passed since the sad events in Autumn 1941. What had preceded them? What did 15th March 1939, the day of occupation by Nazi Germany, mean for solving the Jewish question? As early as on 21st June 1939, the Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath issued a comprehensive decree on Jewish property, forbade Jews […]
Karel Poláček and Terezín
Karel Polacek was born in 1892 at Rychnov nad Kneznou, where he spent his childhood. Later, he lived and worked in Prague. In the period between two world wars, he was respected as one of the major writers of humour and satire. He wrote novels, short stories as well as screenplays, his work regularly appeared in the […]
The award Ceremony of the art competitions
The topic of the 17th literary and 15th art competitions organized by the TM, and designed for pupils of elementary and students of secondary schools, was given by a sentence which many people were telling themselves in the 1930s, since they did not believe, despite all the warnings, that the democratic system of the First-Republic […]
