The Terezin Initiative is anassociation of former prisoners of Terezin and Lodz ghettos from the Czech lands and their direct descendants. Its objective is to keep, in a worthy way, the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust. Members of the Initiative often take part in discussions with younger generations, who learn about this […]
Newsletter 1/2014
Life story of Dagmar Lieblova
The life story of Mrs. Dagmar begins in 1929, when the Fantls cheered over the new born baby girl Dagmar in Kutna Hora. About three years later a younger baby girl Rita made the family complete. Father was a doctor with a surgery right on the ground floor of the Fantls’ house. Mother’s parents also […]
Seminar for Czech teachers in Israel
Already the 9th advanced seminar for Czech teachers was held in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, organized by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Yad Vashem Memorial and Terezin Memorial. The seminar, which was held between 27th October and 4th November 2013, offered a rich programme full of lectures, workshops and presentations of […]
Hana Greenfield has passed away (3rd November 1926 – 27th January 2014)
On 27th January 2014, when the world commemorated the Holocaust Memorial Day, sad news arrived in Terezin in the early evening – Hana Greenfield had died. Born in Kolin in the former Czechoslovakia, prisoner of the Terezin Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, since 1952 living in Israel. After the war, which deprived her of mom, dad […]
