Ilse Weber´s correspondence, written during the 1930s and 40s, was published as a book in 2012. These are primarily letters sent by Ilse to Britain, to her best friend Lilian von Löwenadler, daughter of a Swedish diplomat, and later also to her son Hanuš. The letters are very open and sincere: readers will learn many […]
Newsletter 2/2018
From the New Arrivals in the Department of Collections of the Terezín Memorial for 2017
A major addition to the collections of the Terezín Memorial is a set of 39 drawings and paintings on paper, created in the Terezín Ghetto. In 2017, the collection was donated to the Terezín Memorial by Mrs. Věra Pešinová. These are works of art from the estate of her parents: Vilém Cantor (1907-1981) and Greta […]
Workshop – Psychological Roots of Anti-Semitism
The workshop entitled ”The Psychological Roots of Anti-Semitism“ is based on the outcome of a research project carried out by social psychologists who examine the psychological processes leading to extreme forms of violence towards different groups of society. In the course of the workshop, its attendees were introduced to such terms as stereotype, division of […]
New Worksheets offered by the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Education
Basically, there are two types of worksheets newly available for study during the educational programs for elementary schools and lower grades of high schools at the youth seminars, prepared by the Memorial´s Department of Education. The first kind of the new worksheets serves for interconnecting the region in which the individual students live with the […]
Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust
The 18th seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust was held this year in the Jewish Museum in Prague and in the Terezín Memorial. The three-day seminar, attended by some seventy teachers form Czech elementary and secondary schools, was held in two rounds (from February 23 to 25, and from March 9 to 11). Its […]
