Lisa Miková was born in 1922 into a Prague family of assimilated Jews. According to her own narrative, even though she visited the synagogue with her mother and her family celebrated some Jewish feasts, during the Christmas holiday they decorated a Christmas tree just as the families of Lisa´s friends. In her childhood, Lisa perceived […]
Newsletter 2/2016
Seminars for teachers ”How to teach about the Holocaust“
Seminar for elementary and secondary school teachers called How to Teach About the Holocaust was held in Prague´s Jewish Museum and in the Terezín Memorial already for the 16th times. Run in two cycles (between February 19 and 21 and from March 4 to 6), the seminar was attended by more than 100 teachers. Each […]
Seminar for British and Danish educationists 2016
The third seminar for British and Danish educationists, co-organized by institutions in Denmark (Danish Institute for International Studies), Britain (Holocaust Educational Trust), Israel (Yad Vashem) and naturally also in the Czech Republic (Terezín Memorial), took place between February 5 and 8. This time the seminar was focused more specifically on the topic of the Terezín […]
Josef Čapek exhibition
A festive preview of the exhibition entitled Josef Čapek – Painter, Poet, Writer was held in the lobby of the cinema in Terezín´s Small Fortress on April 7 this year. The opening ceremony was attended by Mrs. Kristýna Váňová, Directress of the Karel Čapek Memorial, and the Czech actress Zdeňka Procházková, who recited several poems […]
