Cooperation of the Terezín Memorial’s Department of Education with the So-Called Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors The life-story of Zuzana Peterová In 2023, the Department of Education of the Terezín Memorial commenced its collaboration with second-generation witnesses, who are the descendants of Holocaust survivors born after the war and who were not directly exposed to the traumatic […]
Educational Seminar in Terezín, January 16–17, 2025
At the end of January 2025, a group of children from two primary schools – the Žulová Primary School and the T. G. Masaryk Primary School in Milovice – attended a joint educational seminar at the Terezín Memorial. After the course and their return home, the children from Žulová sent us an article detailing their […]
Seminars for Czech Teachers in the Terezín Memorial.
Seminar Holocaust in Education for Czech Teachers in the Terezín Memorial. The Terezín Memorial, in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, hosted the twenty-second annual teacher training seminar for secondary-level educators entitled Holocaust in Education from November 28 to December 1, 2024. Thirty-four Czech schoolteachers had the opportunity to explore various […]
Otilie Davidová, Franz Kafka’s dearest sister
(October 29, 1892 Prague – October 7, 1943 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp) “Clean, genuine, honest, consistent. Humility and pride, perceptiveness and detachment, devotion and independence, shyness and courage in an unswerving balance,” Franz Kafka. The year 2024 marks the centenary anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka (1883–1924), we cannot help but remember the youngest of […]
