(October 29, 1892 Prague – October 7, 1943 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp) “Clean, genuine, honest, consistent. Humility and pride, perceptiveness and detachment, devotion and independence, shyness and courage in an unswerving balance,” Franz Kafka. As this year marks the centenary anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924), we cannot […]
Newsletter 4/2024
Irma Lauscherová and the Tree of the Terezín Children
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Irma Lauscherová. We were, therefore, delighted that her daughter, RNDr. Michaela Vidláková, complied with our request and wrote a short recollection of her mother´s life, complete with the story of the Tree of the Terezín Children. A maple tree once stood in the Jewish cemetery […]
Educational Seminar “Experience of the Descendants Born to Survivors of Nazi Persecution and Repression”
The seminar devoted to the issue of the educational potential of the so-called second generation affected by Nazism in teaching about the crimes of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust took place at the Lidice Memorial and the Terezín Memorial on September 7-8, 2024. It is indisputable that the trauma caused by persecution, the loss […]
Third-level Seminar for Czech Teachers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, hosted a seminar for Czech schoolteachers on October 3‒6, 2024. Held regularly since 2002 in collaboration with the Polish Museum, this third-level seminar has been financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. This year, 33 teachers from across the Czech Republic […]
