The seminar for Czech schoolteachers entitled “How to Teach about the Holocaust” was held in Terezín and in Prague between May 27 – 29, 2022. The Terezín Memorial has been organizing the seminar since 2000 in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic, the Jewish Museum in Prague, and […]
New Accession to the Collection of the Terezín Memorial
In 2019 the Terezín Memorial took advantage of an offer made by the Jewish Community in Prague to acquire its books kept in the depository of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences at Jenštejn. The books in this collection come from various sources. Some had been seized from individual Jewish communities and persons of […]
Webinars for Czech teachers on How to Teach about the Holocaust
At the end of last year the Terezín Memorial had to cancel, for the second time running, its second-level training course for Czech schoolteachers in Terezín called Holocaust in Education, with the participation of foreign lecturers, but also the fourth-tier seminars in Israeli Yad Vashem (Jerusalem). Once again, the decision had to be taken due […]
Looking Back…
March of the Living – November 24, 2021 On November 24, 2021 the Terezín Memorial staged a symbolic “March of the Living” to mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the deportations of the inhabitants of Jewish origin to the Terezín Ghetto (November 24, 1941). The ceremony opened at 4 p.m. in front of […]
