In June 2022, eighty years elapsed since the so-called Case of Roudnice Students. During the several past decades a number of articles have been written about what had happened at the Roudnice secondary schools in June 1942, and the whole case is also featured in the Terezín Memorial´s project for youth called ”Being a Schoolchild […]
Newsletter 2/2022
Animal Figurines Made of Dough
(Taking a look at the collections of the Terezín Memorial) Animal figurines made of dough rank quite indisputably among the Memorial´s collection items that offer truly compelling life stories. These exhibits were donated to the collections of the Terezín Memorial by Mrs. Helga Peroutková who had kept them until her 94 years. Thanks to the […]
75th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Terezín Memorial and the Exhibitions: The Terezín Memorial in the Changes of Time 1989 – 2022 and New Accessions to the Collections of the Terezín Memorial from the Years 2017 – 2021
From the history of the Terezín Memorial In 1947, on May 6, the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic passed a ruling on the establishment of a Memorial of National Suffering in the premises of the Small Fortress. Since that area had then been administered by the Ministry of National Defense it had to be transferred […]
Terezín Commemoration 2022
The traditional Terezín Commemoration was held in the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress in Terezín on May 15, 2022. Unlike the two previous years, when one commemoration had to be cancelled and one moved to a September date due to the Covid-19 epidemic, this year the event could take place at its […]
