Hana Hnátová, née Lustigová, was born in Prague on June 20, 1924 into a Czech-speaking family of a trained sales clerk and a seamstress, née Löwyová. The Lustig family lived in Prague´s Libeň quarter. The economic crisis in the 1930s dramatically affected her father´s business who earned his living as a retailer in textile goods. […]
Workshop Nazi Propaganda and the Terezín Ghetto
Quite recently, the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Education has expanded its offer of educational programs for school groups from the Czech Republic, introducing several new workshops. One of them is devoted to the Nazi propaganda in the Terezín Ghetto and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The decision to devise its methodology was motivated […]
Documents on the Imprisonment of Else Hladíková
In 2019 the Department of Documentation of the Terezin Memorial entered in its collection 21 new inventory numbers, comprising a total of 323 individual items. Approximately two thirds of the documents were acquired by gift, the rest by purchase. The Terezín Memorial has also obtained by gift the estate of Else Hladíková; the donor was […]
Seminars for Teachers and the Terezín Memorial, fall of 2019
At the beginning of October 2019, seminar for more than 30 Czech teachers took place in the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiencim in Poland. This kind of seminar has been organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Education and the museum in Oswiencim since 2002. In the programme there were […]
Michaela Vidláková
Michaela Vidláková was born to Irma and Jiří Lauscher in Prague on December 30, 1936. Her mother was a teacher in the Jewish elementary school in Prague´s Jáchymova Street, her father was employed in various companies, working mostly in clerical jobs. Both parents, supporters of Zionism, were actively involved in preparatory courses for emigration to […]
