From October 9 to 12, 2025, an educational seminar for Czech teachers was held for the eleventh time at the Ravensbrück Memorial and the Memorial and Educational Center of the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin. This third-level seminar was staged by the Terezín Memorial in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. A total of twenty-six teachers from across the Czech Republic participated in the event.
The seminar was opened on the evening of Thursday, October 9, at the Ravensbrück Memorial, with a screening of the film Night Caught Me (1985), which tells the story of the communist journalist Jožka Jabůrková, who was imprisoned and murdered in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in the summer of 1942.
On the second day of the seminar, the teachers visited the Memorial and Educational Center of the House of the Wannsee Conference. They began with a tour of the exhibition, followed by workshops on topics such as The Fate of the Chotzen Family and Perpetrators of the Holocaust in an Educational Context. The day concluded with a session on the complexities of Dealing with History in Germany after 1945.
The following day was devoted to the history and present of the former Ravensbrück concentration camp, on whose grounds the Memorial now stands. The morning began with a tour of the former women’s camp, followed in the afternoon by a workshop focused on working with historical photographs. The day concluded with a guided tour of the Memorial’s exhibitions and oral presentations of projects or school activities by several of the participants.
The next third-level seminar is scheduled for October 2026, to be held at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland.
Naděžda Seifertová
