In 2022, the Terezín Memorial added to its collections, in addition to other items, two documents that had belonged to Irma Jílovská, incarcerated in the Terezín Ghetto on racial grounds during wartime Nazi occupation of this country. These include her identity card and her summons to a transport from the Terezín Ghetto to the East. […]
Newsletter 3/2023
Emma Töppler, Member of the Jugendmusiktheaterprojekt Ensemble and Her Comments on its Performance in the Terezín Memorial
A theater performance called “…und der Regen rinnt” was staged by the Jugendmusiktheaterprojekt from the German city of Kassel in the former Magdeburg Barracks in Terezín on June 17, 2023. Emma Töppler, a member of the ensemble, who worked as a volunteer sent by the ASF organization in the Terezín Memorial in the season 2022-2023, […]
Commemoration ceremony in Terezín in 2023
Attended by some of the former inmates of the Nazi persecution facilities and the general public, the traditional Terezín Commemoration proceeded in the National Cemetery in the foreground of the Small Fortress in the morning hours of May 21, 2023. As for the official guests, the rally was attended by Czech President Petr Pavel and […]
The Award Ceremony of the Terezín Memorial´s Art Competitions – Hana Greenfield Memorial 2023
The Terezín Memorial´s 29th literary competition and the 27th art contest – Hana Greenfield Memorial was held under the joint motto “Does the World Want to Be Deceived?” The source of inspiration for this particular topic was the famous Latin saying “Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur” (The World Wants to Be Deceived, So Let It […]
