Karel Polacek was born in 1892 at Rychnov nad Kneznou, where he spent his childhood. Later, he lived and worked in Prague. In the period between two world wars, he was respected as one of the major writers of humour and satire. He wrote novels, short stories as well as screenplays, his work regularly appeared in the […]
Newsletter 3/2011
The award Ceremony of the art competitions
The topic of the 17th literary and 15th art competitions organized by the TM, and designed for pupils of elementary and students of secondary schools, was given by a sentence which many people were telling themselves in the 1930s, since they did not believe, despite all the warnings, that the democratic system of the First-Republic […]
Seminar for the educators from Slovakia
Between 25th – 29th June 2011, 4th seminar for Slovak educators took place at the Terezin Memorial. This time it was a follow-up seminar since most of the participants had been here a year ago, and, due to their great interest in the issue, level II of this educative seminar followed, organized by the Terezin […]
