In May 2012 we are going to commemorate already the 65th anniversary of the Terezin Memorial’s establishment. Let us view the chain of events attached to this important institution. 6th May 1947 The Czechoslovak government established the Memorial of National Suffering in the premises of the Small Fortress. One year before, the tradition of May […]
Newsletter 1/2012
The life story of a young painter from the Terezin ghetto…
Helga Weissova – Hošková (born 1929) In 1939, when the Protectorate was established and the persecution of the Jewish population in it started, Helga was 10 years old. She got gradually more and more affected by various anti-Jewish measures. In December 1941 she and her parents were put on the transport marked with the letter […]
New Project of Terezin Memorial – Tracing Little Memorials
In the course of 2011 the first part of work on a new Memorial’s project called “Tracing Little Memorials” was concluded. The objective of the project is to gradually document the current state of former Nazi camps and mass graves of Nazism victims in the Czech lands and check on the presence of little memorials/plaques […]
Educational Workshops of Terezin Memorial
In autumn 2011, higher educational workshops for teachers were again organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with other institutions. In late October, for the sixth time already, a group of 20 Czech teachers visited the Israeli Yad Vashem Memorial. Afterwards, from 10th to 13th November 2011, there was a traditional workshop (2nd stage) for […]
