“Agriculture” or Landwirtschaft was part of the Economic Department of the ghetto administration. Its beginnings were difficult because basically everything that is needed in agriculture was missing. At the same time, prisoners assigned to work here were mostly untrained and often came from the cities; some of them had never held a hoe or other […]
Newsletter 4/2013
Sheep from Lidice in Terezin – fact or myth?
The Terezin historiography has already had to deal with many inadvertently spread myths, one of them being the question of the true origin of the flock of sheep in Terezin. So far most visitors to the former ghetto have received information that the sheep reared in the ghetto came from the destroyed village of Lidice, […]
Seminar for Czech teachers „Auschwitz – History and Symbolism“, October 2013
Cooperation in education between the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Terezin Memorial has been on for more than 10 years. Polish historians and lecturers regularly come to the seminars in Terezin, where they lecture and lead workshops (a group of Polish teachers visited the Monument for a three-day programme in June 2013), and every two […]
Perpetrators of Crimes. The SS repressive staffs in Terezin and Litomerice, 1940 – 1945
Perpetrators of Crimes. The SS repressive staffs in Terezin and Litomerice, 1940 – 1945 The exposition Perpetrators of Crimes presents by means of 37 gripping panels the SS members who participated in the brutal treatment of Jewish and non-Jewish inmates and their murders within 1940-1945. The exposition is divided into several sections. Three main parts […]
