This year marks 20 years of activities of the Terezin Memorial Education Department, the workplace which mainly focuses on direct work with school children by organizing training seminars on the role of Terezin during World War II. Initially it was not a simple task since the political change in 1989 led to a massive decline […]
Newsletter 2/2013
Jews from the Reich Commissariat Netherlands in the Terezin Ghetto
Curt announcement in daily order of 23rd April 1943 let the ghetto prisoners in Terezin know about the arrival of transport marked XXIV/1 with 295 people from Amsterdam on 22nd April 1943. Seven more transports gradually arrived until November 1944. The above mentioned eight transports were composed of nearly 5,000 people mostly interned in the […]
Seminars of 1st Grade for Teachers – Spring 2013
In the spring, within 15 – 17th March and 22 – 24th March 2013, two first-grade workshops for teachers on “How to teach about the Holocaust” took place in Terezin. This year’s 14th run was attended by a total of 85 Czech teachers. They arrived in Terezin not only to broaden their knowledge about the […]
Terezin Memorial Activities
1st September 2013 – Kever Avot Commemoration at 11 am, crematorium at the Jewish cemetery
