In May 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the repressive facilities in Terezín and Litoměřice, the Museum in the Small Fortress of the Terezín Memorial opened a new permanent exhibition of works selected from the Terezin Memorial art collections. The exhibition presents works by Czech artists devoted to the topic of […]
Events
Seminar for Polish teachers in the Terezín Memorial
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 […]
“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 […]
