The crematorium in Litoměřice, part of the branch of the former Flossenbürg concentration camp in World War II, currently administered by the Terezín Memorial, hosted a lecture and a guided tour of this memorial site for the public on April 6, 2023. The main speakers at the event were PhDr. Ivana Rapavá, Ph.D., head of […]
Czech-Polish Educational Seminar
This year´s first part of the traditional Czech-Polish Educational Seminar was held in the Terezín Memorial between March 2 and 5, 2023. Its second stage will be hosted by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland in December 2023. This educational event is regularly attended by a dozen of selected Czech schoolteachers who had passed […]
Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust
This year´s 24th seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust took place in the Jewish Museum in Prague and in the Terezín Memorial. Attended by 45 teachers from Czech elementary and secondary schools, this three-day first-level seminar proceeded between March 24 and 26, 2023. Its participants heard lectures on Judaism and the history of Jewish […]
Hanuš Thein
As many as 1,057 prisoners arrived in the Terezín Ghetto in a transport codenamed AE 1 (Arbeitseinsatztransporte) on January 31, 1945. These were Jewish partners from what were called mixed marriages (one of the couple was classified as a Jew according to would-be legislative norms, the Nuremberg Laws). Hanuš Thein, a man of the theater, […]
