This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Irma Lauscherová. We were, therefore, delighted that her daughter, RNDr. Michaela Vidláková, complied with our request and wrote a short recollection of her mother´s life, complete with the story of the Tree of the Terezín Children. A maple tree once stood in the Jewish cemetery […]
Educational Seminar “Experience of the Descendants Born to Survivors of Nazi Persecution and Repression”
The seminar devoted to the issue of the educational potential of the so-called second generation affected by Nazism in teaching about the crimes of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust took place at the Lidice Memorial and the Terezín Memorial on September 7-8, 2024. It is indisputable that the trauma caused by persecution, the loss […]
Third-level Seminar for Czech Teachers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, hosted a seminar for Czech schoolteachers on October 3‒6, 2024. Held regularly since 2002 in collaboration with the Polish Museum, this third-level seminar has been financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. This year, 33 teachers from across the Czech Republic […]
Czech-Polish Seminar, Part II
The Department of Education of the Terezín Memorial, working in collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, hosted a Czech-Polish educational seminar from September 19 to 22, 2024. This was the second part of this educational project. The course was attended by a group of Czech schoolteachers who had previously met their Polish counterparts […]
