There were numerous personalities associated with the interwar avant-garde culture in Czechoslovakia among the Terezín Ghetto inmates. These included, for example, architect, costume and stage designer František Zelenka (who also worked in the Liberated Theater), writer, photographer and later diplomat Norbert Frýd (who cooperated with E.F. Burian´s Déčko Theater), dancer and choreographer Kamila Rosenbaumová (known […]
Newsletter 3/2022
Aida Mujačič and Terezín Composer Karel Reiner
Singer and pianist Aida Mujačič was born in the city of Tuzla in former Yugoslavia. As a child, she had experienced the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s. At present she lives in Prague, committing herself to the promotion of Bosnian folk songs, including Jewish tunes sung in the Ladino language (medieval Spanish), […]
Award Ceremony of the Terezín Memorial’s Art Competitions – Hana Greenfield Memorial for 2022
To Paint for Survival was a common theme of the Terezín Memorial´s 28th literary and 26th art competition, known as the Hana Greenfield Memorial. This subject was inspired primarily by the works of art created by Terezín Ghetto inmates, many of them children or adolescents. One of those was, for instance, Jan Burka, a native […]
Seminar on Utilizing Filmed Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors in School Instruction and Production of IWalks
An educational seminar on using videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors in classroom instruction was held in the Terezín Memorial on June 17 and 18, 2022.This was the second training course of this kind in the past two years. Attended by 38 Czech schoolteachers, the seminar consisted of lectures and workshops. In his opening morning lecture, […]
