Two years elapsed in March this year since the opening of a touring exhibition entitled Being at School in the War Years (1938 – 1945) in the Faculty of Education of the Charles University in Prague. The display summed up the work carried out by the teams taking part in the project of the same […]
Newsletter 2/2019
Spring seminars for teachers in the Terezín Memorial
A seminar for Dutch teachers, entitled Learning about Theresienstadt in Terezin and co-sponsored by the Israeli Yad Vashem, was held in the Terezín Memorial between February 28 and March 3, 2019. In addition to a lecture and visits to the former Nazi repressive facilities in Terezín, its participants saw the performance of the children´s opera […]
Petr Ginz´s Drawing and Its Voyage to Outer Space
Monday, April 8, 2019 was a red-letter day for the Terezín Memorial. It welcomed the American astronaut Andrew Feustel with his wife Indira, accompanied by Mrs. Eva Zažímalová, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The distinguished American guest came to present to Mr. Jan Roubínek, Director of the Terezín Memorial, a copy of the […]
Jan Munk Passed Away
Jan Munk, a former long-time Director of the Terezín Memorial, died of a serious illness on May 12, 2019. Jan Munk stood at the helm of the Terezín Memorial between 1990 and 2017 and proved to be one of the leading lights of the large-scale transformation of the Memorial that got under way after 1989. […]
Remembering Doris Grozdanovičová
A sad piece of news – the passing away of Mrs. Doris Grozdanovičová at the age of 93 – reached us late in the afternoon of August 21, 2019. Doris was born in Jihlava on April 7, 1926; after a time she moved with her family to Brno. During World War II she and her […]
