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 […]
Aida Mujačič and Terezín Composer Karel Reiner
Singer and pianist Aida Mujačič was born in the city of Tuzla in former Yugoslavia. As a child, she had experienced the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s. At present she lives in Prague, committing herself to the promotion of Bosnian folk songs, including Jewish tunes sung in the Ladino language (medieval Spanish), […]
Award Ceremony of the Terezín Memorial’s Art Competitions – Hana Greenfield Memorial for 2022
To Paint for Survival was a common theme of the Terezín Memorial´s 28th literary and 26th art competition, known as the Hana Greenfield Memorial. This subject was inspired primarily by the works of art created by Terezín Ghetto inmates, many of them children or adolescents. One of those was, for instance, Jan Burka, a native […]
