From October 9 to 12, 2025, an educational seminar for Czech teachers was held for the eleventh time at the Ravensbrück Memorial and the Memorial and Educational Center of the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin. This third-level seminar was staged by the Terezín Memorial in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth and […]
One of Many Life Stories – The Story from a Wooden Box
After liberation in 1945, Holocaust survivors sought to return to their homes and rebuild their lives within society. They returned to find their prewar worlds in ruins—few relatives had survived, and many had lost their entire families. In the years that followed, survivors often faced renewed manifestations of anti-Semitism and widespread indifference to their memories […]
I, Anna Lehovcová
I was born in 1950. My mother, known throughout her life as Anka (Anna Hyndráková — editor’s note), was only twenty-one at the time, and just five years had passed since the end of the war. Four years later, my brother was born. We have always been very close. He and his family now live […]
Terezín Commemoration 2025
On Sunday, May 18, 2025, the Terezín Commemoration took place at the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress in Terezín. Attended by the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, it served as this year’s principal commemorative event of the Terezin Memorial marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation and the end of […]
