“It was horrible, in terms of hygiene this was the worst equipped ward in the whole of Terezín. Sick, mostly old women, who had fallen ill due to the prevailing hardship, were lying in a cold room, formerly a horse stable, on a stone floor, at first without straw, without covers, in their own excrements. […]
The Terezín Commemoration 2021
The Terezín Commemoration is held annually on each third Sunday in May at the end of the International Memorial Days of Resistance as a legacy of the so-called Oath of Buchenwald. Its core is a declaration made by the liberated inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 that they would not cease commemorating war […]
Announcement of the results of Terezín Memorial´s art competitions – Hana Greenfield Memorial for 2021
The prize-awarding ceremony of the Terezín Memorial´s 27th literary and 25th art competition – the Hana Greenfield Memorial took place in the cinema of the Ghetto Museum in Terezín on September 7, 2021. For this year we selected for both competitions a common topic: When Help Is Needed…. This subject was inspired by the events […]
Seminars for Czech teachers and the Terezín Memorial
Seminar ”How to Teach about the Holocaust“ The unfavorable epidemiological situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic also adversely affected the holding of the educational seminar “How to Teach about the Holocaust“, regularly staged in the spring. It had to be postponed in 2021 to a date in September, specifically between September 17 and 19, 2021. […]
