The Terezín ghetto was to serve merely as a stop for Jewish prisoners before their final liquidation in the East as planned by the Nazis. Yet, even this “stop” created conditions which contributed to the deaths of thousands of deportees. From the beginning, there were problems associated with the location and survival of huge amount […]
Newsletter 4/2015
Conference of Grammar School Students in Banská Bystrica
Two years ago, the Terezín Memorial was addressed by the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) located in Banská Bystrica with a request to cooperate on a joint Slovak-Czech project aimed at grammar school students in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The project was subsequently adjusted so that the registered Czech students worked on […]
Seminar for Czech and Polish Teachers at the Terezín Memorial
From 2nd to 4th October 2015, a seminar for Czech and Polish teachers, jointly conceived with the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, took place at the premises of the Terezín Memorial under the title Terezín – The Place of Memory. In addition to supplying the participants with lectures on less accented issues related to the […]
Education Seminar for Czech teachers at the State Museum in Auschwitz-Birkenau
From 8th to 11th October 2015, the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in cooperation with the Terezín Memorial and the Czech Ministry of Education hosted the 3rd level of the educational seminar in Poland. During a two-day intensive programme, thirty-nine teachers from various parts of the Czech Republic completed their knowledge on the Holocaust, the teaching methods […]
