The safety repressive authorities of Nazi Germany often introduced euphemistic expressions to cover the true nature of their approach to the population in the controlled areas. One of such terms, in addition to final solution of the Jewish question or evacuation, was also the innocent-sounding phrase of special treatment, in German Sonderbehandlung. If we asked […]
Newsletter 2/2014
The life stories of two executed…
Jiri Langer (1916 – 1945) After his childhood spent in Brandys nad Labem Jiri trained for an electrical engineer and in 1934 he obtained his certificate of apprenticeship. In the second half of the 30s he started a two-year full-time service. He first worked as a telephone operator of Artillery Regiment No. 51 and immediately […]
Seminar for Czech and Polish teachers in Auschwitz
Thorough inspections of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps, special visit to publicly inaccessible block 10 associated with horrible experiments on women, information on the conservation laboratories of the museum and a meeting with the survivor of the Warsaw uprising and a subsequent prisoner of Auschwitz II – Birkenau, today a poet Bogdan Bartnikowsky – […]
Seminars “How to teach about the Holocaust”
The 15th spring season of the seminars for teachers on “How to teach about the Holocaust” took place in Prague’s Jewish Museum and the Terezin Memorial. They were attended by more than 80 Czech teachers. The three-day programme included lectures on Judaism and the Jewish settlement of Bohemia and Moravia, anti-Semitism, psychological aspects of the […]
