A special transport codenamed Dx, consisting exclusively of mentally ill patients from Terezín´s psychiatric ward, left the Terezín Ghetto on March 20, 1944. In addition to 42 inmates-patients, the transport carried a three-man accompanying team, made up of two male nurses (Kurt Andermann and Ernst Grünfeld) and one doctor (Dr. Walter Ruben). According to nurse […]
Terezín Memorial, One of the Regional Sites of Conference Excursions During the 26th ICOM General Conference
In August 2022 the Czech Republic played host to the 26th ICOM General Conference (August 20 – 28), entitled ICOM Prague 2022, “The Power of Museumsˮ. Held once in three years, this conference serves as a hub for promoting international contacts among museums. This year´s conference venue was the Congress Center Prague and its main […]
Educational Seminar for Czech Schoolteachers organized in foreign countries, the Fall of 2022
Working in conjunction with the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and affiliated institutions in foreign countries, the Terezín Memorial has been organizing educational seminars for Czech schoolteachers held abroad since 2002. Three such seminars took place in October and early November 2022, two in Poland, in the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the […]
Composer Karel Reiner
There were numerous personalities associated with the interwar avant-garde culture in Czechoslovakia among the Terezín Ghetto inmates. These included, for example, architect, costume and stage designer František Zelenka (who also worked in the Liberated Theater), writer, photographer and later diplomat Norbert Frýd (who cooperated with E.F. Burian´s Déčko Theater), dancer and choreographer Kamila Rosenbaumová (known […]
