In 2019 the Terezín Memorial took advantage of an offer made by the Jewish Community in Prague to acquire its books kept in the depository of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences at Jenštejn. The books in this collection come from various sources. Some had been seized from individual Jewish communities and persons of […]
Newsletter 1/2022
Webinars for Czech teachers on How to Teach about the Holocaust
At the end of last year the Terezín Memorial had to cancel, for the second time running, its second-level training course for Czech schoolteachers in Terezín called Holocaust in Education, with the participation of foreign lecturers, but also the fourth-tier seminars in Israeli Yad Vashem (Jerusalem). Once again, the decision had to be taken due […]
Looking Back…
March of the Living – November 24, 2021 On November 24, 2021 the Terezín Memorial staged a symbolic “March of the Living” to mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the deportations of the inhabitants of Jewish origin to the Terezín Ghetto (November 24, 1941). The ceremony opened at 4 p.m. in front of […]
Homage to Bedrník or Blue Blood in the Anti-Nazi Resistance Movement
For the third time already, the Terezín Memorial and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes prepared a composite program on the occasion of the anniversary of the wartime execution of Zdeněk Bořek-Dohalský, whose life was prematurely ended at the age of 44 in the Police Prison in Terezín on February 7, 1945. He […]
