The primary impulse for launching the project “Ghetto Museum Terezín” was the pressing need to renovate the exhibition in the Ghetto Museum, which – now after more than 20 years of its existence (installed in 2001) – no longer meets the contemporary trends in museum presentation. In addition to designing a new exhibition, the project […]
Remembering Holocaust Survivors
Regrettably, Lisa Miková, Hana Hnátová and Bohumila Havránková, Holocaust survivors, passed away in 2022. In the past decades, they often came to the Terezín Memorial to take part in debates with young people as well as schoolteachers. Thanks to those contacts we could get to know one another much better and we would now like […]
Seminar for Czech schoolteachers Holocaust in Education in the Terezín Memorial
After a two-year break caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, the second-tier seminar for Czech schoolteachers Holocaust in Education was again held in 2022, proceeding between November 24 and 27. The seminar, traditionally organized by the Terezín Memorial in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, was attended by 38 […]
The Story of the Psychiatric Transport Dx (March, 1944) from the Terezín Ghetto to the Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau
A special transport codenamed Dx, consisting exclusively of mentally ill patients from Terezín´s psychiatric ward, left the Terezín Ghetto on March 20, 1944. In addition to 42 inmates-patients, the transport carried a three-man accompanying team, made up of two male nurses (Kurt Andermann and Ernst Grünfeld) and one doctor (Dr. Walter Ruben). According to nurse […]
