For the third time already, the Terezín Memorial and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes prepared a composite program on the occasion of the anniversary of the wartime execution of Zdeněk Bořek-Dohalský, whose life was prematurely ended at the age of 44 in the Police Prison in Terezín on February 7, 1945. He […]
Fragments from the Life of the Mentally Ill in the Terezín Ghetto
“It was horrible, in terms of hygiene this was the worst equipped ward in the whole of Terezín. Sick, mostly old women, who had fallen ill due to the prevailing hardship, were lying in a cold room, formerly a horse stable, on a stone floor, at first without straw, without covers, in their own excrements. […]
The Terezín Commemoration 2021
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 […]
