Towards the end of 1944 many people already felt that the end of the war was approaching. In the Battle of the Bulge, western allies troops thwarted the attempts of the German Army to control the Western Front, and a few weeks later the Red Army launched a massive winter offensive on the Eastern Front. […]
Newsletter 1/2015
Seminar for teachers at the Memorial Ravensbrück
In early October 2014, the Ravensbrück Memorial hosted for the 5th time the 3rd grade seminar for Czech teachers organized by the Terezin Memorial in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Education and German partners. The first day of the seminar included a visit to the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin. Participants had […]
Seminar for Czech teachers at Yad Vashem in Israel
In late October and early November 2014, a group of 18 teachers from all over the Czech Republic took part in an educational seminar held in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Israeli Jerusalem. This seminar, organized by the Yad Vashem Memorial, the Czech Ministry of Education and the Terezín Memorial, is always the highlight in […]
International Seminar for Czech teachers at Terezín Memorial
From 27th to 30th November 2014, the Terezín Memorial hosted the 14th annual seminar on “Holocaust in Education”, attended by 36 Czech teachers. While the first stage of seminars titled “How to teach about the Holocaust” is lectured only by Czech experts, lecturers for this second stage are invited from foreign institutions as well. Their […]
