The Terezín Commemoration is held annually on each third Sunday in May at the end of the International Memorial Days of Resistance as a legacy of the so-called Oath of Buchenwald. Its core is a declaration made by the liberated inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 that they would not cease commemorating war […]
Announcement of the results of Terezín Memorial´s art competitions – Hana Greenfield Memorial for 2021
The prize-awarding ceremony of the Terezín Memorial´s 27th literary and 25th art competition – the Hana Greenfield Memorial took place in the cinema of the Ghetto Museum in Terezín on September 7, 2021. For this year we selected for both competitions a common topic: When Help Is Needed…. This subject was inspired by the events […]
Seminars for Czech teachers and the Terezín Memorial
Seminar ”How to Teach about the Holocaust“ The unfavorable epidemiological situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic also adversely affected the holding of the educational seminar “How to Teach about the Holocaust“, regularly staged in the spring. It had to be postponed in 2021 to a date in September, specifically between September 17 and 19, 2021. […]
International Scientific Conference in the Terezín Memorial
To mark the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Ghetto in Terezín, the Memorial staged a scientific conference ”The Terezín Ghetto and the Police Prison in Terezín in the Repressive System of the Occupation Power (1940–1945)“ on November 1 and 2, 2021. The working seminar, marking the 80th anniversary of the establishment of […]
