The Terezin involuntary community gave birth to binding legal standards, which were exercised there throughout its entire duration. “Each ghetto inhabitant is obliged to obey all rules and regulations. Violation of them will be punished.” So was it determined in the general and special camp orders issued by the SS command in early 1942, and […]
Newsletter 2/2011
The database of people persecuted by the Nazi regime
On 16th March 2011 the Terezin Memorial gave a presentation in the National Archive in Prague, and made the public acquainted with their new website, and, primarily, with the newly-processed browsers of prosecuted people as well as databases of collections and their documentation. The goal of the on-line databases is to make lists of prisoners […]
First-grade seminars for teachers – Spring 2011
The dates 4th – 6th March and 18th – 20th March 2011 belonged to already 12th year of the first-grade seminars for teachers with the title “How to teach about the Holocaust”. The seminars were attended by a total of 90 Czech teachers, who spent three days extending their knowledge about the Holocaust and Terezin, […]
Terezin remembrance ceremony 2011 and the anniversary of last execution in the Small Fortress
The third Sunday in May in Terezin traditionally belonged to the remembrance ceremony – a memorial event to commemorate the victims of the Terezin Nazi repressive facilities – the police Gestapo prison in the Small Fortress and the Terezin Jewish ghetto. Dozens of delegations from the Czech Republic and abroad laid wreaths under different memorials […]
