Seminar Holocaust in Education for Czech Teachers in the Terezín Memorial. The Terezín Memorial, in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, hosted the twenty-second annual teacher training seminar for secondary-level educators entitled Holocaust in Education from November 28 to December 1, 2024. Thirty-four Czech schoolteachers had the opportunity to explore various […]
Otilie Davidová, Franz Kafka’s dearest sister
(October 29, 1892 Prague – October 7, 1943 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp) “Clean, genuine, honest, consistent. Humility and pride, perceptiveness and detachment, devotion and independence, shyness and courage in an unswerving balance,” Franz Kafka. The year 2024 marks the centenary anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka (1883–1924), we cannot help but remember the youngest of […]
Irma Lauscherová and the Tree of the Terezín Children
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Irma Lauscherová. We were, therefore, delighted that her daughter, RNDr. Michaela Vidláková, complied with our request and wrote a short recollection of her mother´s life, complete with the story of the Tree of the Terezín Children. A maple tree once stood in the Jewish cemetery […]
Educational Seminar “Experience of the Descendants Born to Survivors of Nazi Persecution and Repression”
The seminar devoted to the issue of the educational potential of the so-called second generation affected by Nazism in teaching about the crimes of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust took place at the Lidice Memorial and the Terezín Memorial on September 7-8, 2024. It is indisputable that the trauma caused by persecution, the loss […]