To mark the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Ghetto in Terezín, the Memorial staged a scientific conference ”The Terezín Ghetto and the Police Prison in Terezín in the Repressive System of the Occupation Power (1940–1945)“ on November 1 and 2, 2021. The working seminar, marking the 80th anniversary of the establishment of […]
Terezín Memorial and the Databases of Politically and Racially Persecuted Persons
The early days of the individual databases of the Terezín Memorial date back to the year 1998. At that time, the employees of the Memorial´s Department of History got down to compiling the first database containing data on the former inmates of the Gestapo Police Prison Terezín.[1] The process of digitizing the collections got under […]
Hana Reinerová
Hana Reinerová, an accomplished translator from Bulgarian into Czech, whose birth centenary was marked on April 19, 2021, figured among the outstanding personalities of the Czech cultural community who had passed through the wartime Terezín Ghetto. She was born in Benešov near Prague as Hana Steinerová, but her family had lived in Bulgaria since the […]
Webinar Love in the Terezín Ghetto
Since the end of 2020 the Terezín Memorial´s offer of online educational programs for schools has featured a new workshop called Love in the Terezín Ghetto. Its key purpose is to acquaint schoolchildren and youth with the ruthless Holocaust machinery and the life of the Terezín Ghetto inmates, as seen through their romantic relationships and […]