Stanislav Šmolík was born to father Alois and mother Anežka (née Loukotová) in Libušín near Kladno on June 25, 1906. After finishing his school attendance he earned his living as a tinsmith. Already in his youth he came into contact with communist ideas, and in 1925 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Shortly after […]
Newsletter 2/2023
Lecture and Guided Tour of the Crematorium in Litoměřice
The crematorium in Litoměřice, part of the branch of the former Flossenbürg concentration camp in World War II, currently administered by the Terezín Memorial, hosted a lecture and a guided tour of this memorial site for the public on April 6, 2023. The main speakers at the event were PhDr. Ivana Rapavá, Ph.D., head of […]
Czech-Polish Educational Seminar
This year´s first part of the traditional Czech-Polish Educational Seminar was held in the Terezín Memorial between March 2 and 5, 2023. Its second stage will be hosted by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland in December 2023. This educational event is regularly attended by a dozen of selected Czech schoolteachers who had passed […]
Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust
This year´s 24th seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust took place in the Jewish Museum in Prague and in the Terezín Memorial. Attended by 45 teachers from Czech elementary and secondary schools, this three-day first-level seminar proceeded between March 24 and 26, 2023. Its participants heard lectures on Judaism and the history of Jewish […]
