In June 2022, eighty years elapsed since the so-called Case of Roudnice Students. During the several past decades a number of articles have been written about what had happened at the Roudnice secondary schools in June 1942, and the whole case is also featured in the Terezín Memorial´s project for youth called ”Being a Schoolchild […]
Historical articles
Fragments from the Life of the Mentally Ill in the Terezín Ghetto
“It was horrible, in terms of hygiene this was the worst equipped ward in the whole of Terezín. Sick, mostly old women, who had fallen ill due to the prevailing hardship, were lying in a cold room, formerly a horse stable, on a stone floor, at first without straw, without covers, in their own excrements. […]
Hana Reinerová
Hana Reinerová, an accomplished translator from Bulgarian into Czech, whose birth centenary was marked on April 19, 2021, figured among the outstanding personalities of the Czech cultural community who had passed through the wartime Terezín Ghetto. She was born in Benešov near Prague as Hana Steinerová, but her family had lived in Bulgaria since the […]
History of the house No. 145 in Terezín
(When the Documents talk…) Thanks to the preserved sources on its construction, on previous owners, its intended or actual use, every house in Terezín, whether built for military or civilian purposes, could serve as a piece into the mosaic of the town´s history. Take, for instance, the diverse and exceptionally rich file of documents relating […]
