A third-tier teacher-training seminar, organized since 2002 in conjunction with the Czech Republic´s Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Terezín Memorial, was held in the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland between October 5 and 8, 2017. An intensive two-day program, complete with extended fact-finding visits to the Auschwitz I. […]
Unveiling Shoa Monument in Jindřichův Hradec
A monument commemorating the victims of racial persecution during the years 1939–1945 was unveiled at a ceremony in the city´s Zaskostelecký Square on Sunday, May 21, 2017. The author of the monument, academic sculptor Vladimír Krninský, created his work to mark the 75th anniversary of the transport of Jews from Jindřichův Hradec to Terezín. The […]
Paintress Charlotta Burešová
Charlotta (Lotka) Burešová was born in Prague on November 4, 1904 into the family of tailor Gustav Kompert and his wife Steffi. She studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in a class of F. Krattner and at the College of Applied Arts in a class of J. Schusser. She married lawyer Radim Bureš; […]
Is the Past Still Alive?
The winners of the Terezín Memorial’s 23rd literary competition and the 21st art contest, named The Hana Greenfield Memorial in honor of the initiator, co-founder and sponsor of the competitions, this time held under the common title Is the Past Still Alive?, were announced at an award-giving ceremony in the cinema of the Ghetto Museum […]