In 2019 the Department of Documentation of the Terezin Memorial entered in its collection 21 new inventory numbers, comprising a total of 323 individual items. Approximately two thirds of the documents were acquired by gift, the rest by purchase. The Terezín Memorial has also obtained by gift the estate of Else Hladíková; the donor was […]
Seminars for Teachers and the Terezín Memorial, fall of 2019
At the beginning of October 2019, seminar for more than 30 Czech teachers took place in the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiencim in Poland. This kind of seminar has been organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Education and the museum in Oswiencim since 2002. In the programme there were […]
Michaela Vidláková
Michaela Vidláková was born to Irma and Jiří Lauscher in Prague on December 30, 1936. Her mother was a teacher in the Jewish elementary school in Prague´s Jáchymova Street, her father was employed in various companies, working mostly in clerical jobs. Both parents, supporters of Zionism, were actively involved in preparatory courses for emigration to […]
The Terezín Ghetto and the Hartmann Family
In the fall of 2019 the Terezín Memorial obtained by gift a valuable set of 22 works of art created in the Terezín Ghetto. These include two watercolor drawings by Edita Hartmannová and twenty works made by her son Jan Hartmann (primarily watercolor Indian ink drawings). Most of the items depict everyday life in the […]
