Bohumila Havránková, née Picková, was born into a Czech-speaking family in Liberec on November 17, 1927. Her mother, a trained dressmaker, stayed at home, while her father was a retail and wholesale trader in textile. While mother was a non-practicing Catholic, father – as a member of the Jewish community –had both his daughters entered, […]
Newsletter 1/2019
From the New Arrivals to the Photo Archive of the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Documentation
In 2018 the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Documentation succeeded in acquiring several new items for its photo archive collections. The single most interesting new arrival is the donation by a lady from Rychnov nad Kněžnou. This involves a set of 27 original photographs from the estate of her uncle, mother´s brother, Bohuslav Mahler from Solnice (district […]
Terezín Memorial and Seminars for Teachers, Autumn 2018
Autumn 2018 saw several seminars for teachers, organized by the Terezín Memorial in conjunction with other institutions. The October seminar in the Federal Republic of Germany (see Bulletin No. 4/2018) linked up to the Czech-Polish seminar held for the third year. Its first part took place in Terezín in May 2018, the second one in […]
Reading from a Biography of Lisa Miková
The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity was again marked in the Terezín Memorial in January 2018, this time by readings from a biography of Mrs. Lisa Miková, a survivor of the Terezín Ghetto, the Auschwitz concentration campa and the Mauthausen concentration camp. The book, written by […]
