From March 20 to 22, 2026, Prague and Terezín hosted the 27th annual professional seminar titled “How to Teach about the Holocaust.” It provides educators with a program focused on teaching the history of the Holocaust and related topics. This year, the seminar was attended by 45 primary and secondary school teachers from various regions […]
Exhibitions of Award-Winning Works from the 29th and 28th Hana Greenfield Memorial Art Competitions in Prague, Postoloprty, Kolín and Březnice
The artworks produced for each edition of the Terezín Memorial’s art competitions are initially displayed for two months at the Ghetto Museum in Terezín after the award-giving ceremony. Following this period, the artworks are exhibited in various towns and cities throughout the Czech Republic. We are currently focused on placing these exhibitions in the communities […]
Offer of the Department of Education of the Terezin Memorial Workshops at the National Pedagogical Museum and J. A. Comenius Library
The Department of the Education of the Terezin Memorial, in cooperation with the J. A. Komenský National Pedagogical Museum and Library, has prepared engaging workshops for upper primary and secondary school students accompanying the exhibition Childhood Under the Swastika, currently on display at the NPMK. Featured workshops include Terezín Ghetto through the Eyes of Children […]
„… Every day in a person’s life is beautiful. Every day.”[1]
Chapters from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer Family and childhood Alice Herz was born in 1903 as the younger of twins into a German-Jewish family in Prague. Her mother, Sofie, came from Jihlava, from the German-speaking family of the merchant Ignatz Schultz. Her father, Friedrich Herz, had already been engaged in business in Prague before […]
