After the liberation Irma and her daughter stayed in Terezín until the end of the quarantine; meanwhile father Jiří had left for Prague in the first days of freedom to prepare a necessary background for his family. Irma with small Míša then spent just a short time in Prague before Míša left for a sanatorium […]
From the Terezín Memorial´s restoration workshop
Interview with restorer MgA. Luisa Wáwrová MgA. Luisa Wáwrová began working in the Terezín Memorial as a restorer in 2018, specializing in restoring and conserving works of art on paper, canvas and related materials (reverse painting on glass, frames…). The Memorial´s restoration workshop, Luisa´s workplace, is situated in the former Magdeburg Barracks, one of the […]
A British Biography of the Musician Gideon Klein
(review of David Fligg´s book) The birth centenary of Gideon Klein, a gifted pianist and composer but also a man of truly versatile cultural interests, was marked in December 2019. His young life ended in the machinery of what the Nazis called “The Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in the Fürstengrube concentration camp in […]
Day of Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, 27. 1. 2021
On January 27, 2021 we commemorated the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. This day has been marked in the Czech Republic since 2004 as the Day of Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity. In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27 as the International Day to […]
