The story of Dita Krausová. Dita Krausová, originally named Edith Polachová, was born on July 12, 1929 into a Prague Jewish family. Her mother Elisabeth was a homemaker, father Hanuš was employed as a lawyer at the Social Security Institute, where he represented the interests of workers. Both parents enjoyed attending the opera, playing the […]
Historical articles
František Mořic Nágl – Chronicler of the Terezín Ghetto
(28. 5. 1889 – 28. 10. 1944) Walking through the first floor of the Magdeburg Barracks, the section housing the Terezín Memorial’s exhibition dedicated to the fine arts created in the Terezín Ghetto between 1941 and 1945, visitors will hardly miss a set of colorful pictures capturing the Terezín Ghetto barracks and dormitories. Thanks to […]
Righteous Libuše Friesová
Let us recall the life story of an exceptional woman, Libuše Friesová who was awarded in 1999 the title Righteous among the Nations for saving the lives of four people. The award-giving ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Prague was attended, among other people, by two of the saved women, namely her sister-in-law Erna Seykorová […]
Documents of Irma Jílovská in the Terezín Memorial Collections
In 2022, the Terezín Memorial added to its collections, in addition to other items, two documents that had belonged to Irma Jílovská, incarcerated in the Terezín Ghetto on racial grounds during wartime Nazi occupation of this country. These include her identity card and her summons to a transport from the Terezín Ghetto to the East. […]
