First transport of Danish Jews with 83 people arrived in the Terezin ghetto on 5th October 1943. Within the next ten days their amount in the Terezín ghetto rose to more than 450, later reaching the final number of 466 persons. The position of Jews in Denmark before World War II was characterized by a […]
Newsletter 2/2015
“Sophie’s Choice – The Czech Way“ in the Terezín Memorial
In the first quarter of 2015, the Terezín Memorial hosted an exhibition of Judita Matyášová “Sophie’s Choice – The Czech Way”. The exhibition presents the fate of 80 Jewish children who in 1939 attended preparatory courses for life in Palestine, which brought them to Denmark and saved them from the for Jewish population increasingly burdensome […]
New project Schoolchild in the War Years
We would like to draw your attention to the announcement of a new pupil and student project of the Terezín Memorial and its partners: the Terezín Initiative Institute and the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius in Prague, presented under the title Schoolchild in the War Years. The project is more-leveled, students […]
Seminar for British and Danish educators
After two and a half years, a seminar for educators from Denmark took place again, this time enriched by the presence of their British colleagues. The seminar was held from 13th to 16th February 2015, with active participation of representatives of the following organizing institutions: Yad Vashem (Israel), Holocaust Educational Trust (UK), Danish Institute for […]
