In connection with the imprisonment of Gavrilo Princip in the Small Fortress and his disease, the personality of Dr. Jan Levit is to be mentioned. Jan Levit was born in 1884 in Hořice at the foothills of the Giant Mountains. He was well familiar with the world of medicine from his childhood as his father […]
Newsletter 4/2014
Rebellion in Rumburk and the Small Fortress Terezín
In the last year of the World War I, the background of the Austro-Hungarian Empire witnessed increasingly frequent manifestations of resistance and opposition to the continuing conflict. Not only wishes to terminate this too long lasting military conflict, but also starvation, non-payment to soldiers, mistreatment and denials of soldiers’ leaves instigated riots of the 3rd […]
Exhibition “Truth and Lies. Filming in the Terezín Ghetto 1942-1945“
Since September 2014 the Terezín Memorial has expanded its expositions with a permanent exhibition Truth and Lies. Filming in the Terezín ghetto 1942 – 1945 dedicated to the Nazi films created in the Terezin ghetto within 1942 – 1945. The exhibition has moved to Terezin from the Robert Guttmann Gallery of the Jewish Museum in […]
