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Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust

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This year´s 24th seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust took place in the Jewish Museum in Prague and in the Terezín Memorial. Attended by 45 teachers from Czech elementary and secondary schools, this three-day first-level seminar proceeded between March 24 and 26, 2023.

The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, the lecture by Pavla Damohorská on the topic „History of the Jews in the Czech lands and in Moravia“, Education and Culture Department of the Jewish Museum in Prague, March 2023, photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezin Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, the guided tour of the exhibitions of the Jewish Museum in Prague, the guided tour was led by Zuzana Pavlovská. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, the guided tour of the exhibitions of the Jewish Museum in Prague, the guided tour was led by Zuzana Pavlovská. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.

Its participants heard lectures on Judaism and the history of Jewish settlements in Bohemia and Moravia, on anti-Semitism and its manifestations in the past and present, on the propagandist function of the Terezín Ghetto, on the Roma and Sinti Holocaust and the principle of teaching about the Holocaust itself. The event also featured workshops, staged by the Terezín Memorial and the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and presented some of the programs both institutions routinely offer to school groups, plus a combined theater and art workshop prepared by Dr. Jana Jebavá. Attending teachers had an opportunity to take part in the individual workshops according to their own preferences.

The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, lecture by Vojtech Blodig about the propaganda role of the Terezin Ghetto, Attic Theatre of the former Magdeburg Barracks, March 2023, photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezin Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, the guided tour of the former Terezin Ghetto led by Jana Sumičová. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, the guided tour of the former Terezin Ghetto led by Helena Palová. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.


Regular components of the seminar are guided sightseeing tours of Prague´s Jewish Town, the former Terezín Ghetto and the former Gestapo Police Prison in the Small Fortress. The schoolteachers greatly appreciated the possibility of meeting Dr. Michaela Vidláková, a former Terezín Ghetto inmate, who shared memories of her fate and life in the Ghetto as a child prisoner.                                   

The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, meeting with survivor of the Terezin Ghetto, Michaela Vidláková. The Attic Theatre of the former Magdeburg Barracks, March 2023. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, aktivity of the participans during the workshop led by Karina Hoření from the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno. Study room in the Ghetto Museum in the Terezin Memorial. March 2023. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, work of the participants during the workshop Boundary situations in the people´s life: The Ester´s Story, heroine of the Old Testament. Workshop was led by Jana Jebavá. The Attic Theatre of the former Magdeburg Barracks, March 2023. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, work of the participants during the workshop Boundary situations in the people´s life: The Ester´s Story, heroine of the Old Testament. Workshop was led by Jana Jebavá. The Attic Theatre of the former Magdeburg Barracks, March 2023. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, presentation of the work of the participants during the workshop of the Educational Department of the Terezin Memorial – „From Number to the Name“. The Attic Theatre of the former Magdeburg Barracks, March 2023. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.
The Seminar How to Teach about the Holocaust, the lecture given by Dušan Slačka, historian of the Museum of the Romany Culture on the topic of the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti. The Attic Theatre of the former Magdeburg Barracks, March 2023. Photo: Sylvie Holubová, Terezín Memorial.

Sylvie Holubová