This year´s first part of the traditional Czech-Polish Educational Seminar was held in the Terezín Memorial between March 2 and 5, 2023. Its second stage will be hosted by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland in December 2023. This educational event is regularly attended by a dozen of selected Czech schoolteachers who had passed […]
Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust
This year´s 24th seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust took place in the Jewish Museum in Prague and in the Terezín Memorial. Attended by 45 teachers from Czech elementary and secondary schools, this three-day first-level seminar proceeded between March 24 and 26, 2023. Its participants heard lectures on Judaism and the history of Jewish […]
Hanuš Thein
As many as 1,057 prisoners arrived in the Terezín Ghetto in a transport codenamed AE 1 (Arbeitseinsatztransporte) on January 31, 1945. These were Jewish partners from what were called mixed marriages (one of the couple was classified as a Jew according to would-be legislative norms, the Nuremberg Laws). Hanuš Thein, a man of the theater, […]
On the Reconstruction of the Ghetto Museum in Terezín and Preparations of Its New Exhibition
The primary impulse for launching the project “Ghetto Museum Terezín” was the pressing need to renovate the exhibition in the Ghetto Museum, which – now after more than 20 years of its existence (installed in 2001) – no longer meets the contemporary trends in museum presentation. In addition to designing a new exhibition, the project […]
