In late May 2015, 30 Polish teachers visited the Terezín Memorial to take part in the third year of the seminar for Polish teachers, organized by the Terezín Memorial in collaboration with the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau and IPN (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej). The three-day seminar was opened with a lecture of Tomáš Fedorovič on the position […]
Events
“Sophie’s Choice – The Czech Way“ in the Terezín Memorial
In the first quarter of 2015, the Terezín Memorial hosted an exhibition of Judita Matyášová “Sophie’s Choice – The Czech Way”. The exhibition presents the fate of 80 Jewish children who in 1939 attended preparatory courses for life in Palestine, which brought them to Denmark and saved them from the for Jewish population increasingly burdensome […]
“With a Clear Goal and Full Power“
This new publication of the Terezín Memorial introduces the reader to the time of German occupation of the Sudetenland in October 1938, later also the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. “With a Clear Goal and Full Power” did the repressive apparatus built by Heinrich Himmler appear in our country. It involved the Security Police […]
About the cooperation between the Terezin Memorial Education Department and the Terezin Initiative
The Terezin Initiative is anassociation of former prisoners of Terezin and Lodz ghettos from the Czech lands and their direct descendants. Its objective is to keep, in a worthy way, the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust. Members of the Initiative often take part in discussions with younger generations, who learn about this […]
