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 […]
Seminar on Utilizing Filmed Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors in School Instruction and Production of IWalks
An educational seminar on using videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors in classroom instruction was held in the Terezín Memorial on June 17 and 18, 2022.This was the second training course of this kind in the past two years. Attended by 38 Czech schoolteachers, the seminar consisted of lectures and workshops. In his opening morning lecture, […]
The Case of Roudnice Students
In June 2022, eighty years elapsed since the so-called Case of Roudnice Students. During the several past decades a number of articles have been written about what had happened at the Roudnice secondary schools in June 1942, and the whole case is also featured in the Terezín Memorial´s project for youth called ”Being a Schoolchild […]
