Hana Hnátová, née Lustigová, was born in Prague on June 20, 1924 into a Czech-speaking family of a trained sales clerk and a seamstress, née Löwyová. The Lustig family lived in Prague´s Libeň quarter. The economic crisis in the 1930s dramatically affected her father´s business who earned his living as a retailer in textile goods. […]
Historical articles
Documents on the Imprisonment of Else Hladíková
In 2019 the Department of Documentation of the Terezin Memorial entered in its collection 21 new inventory numbers, comprising a total of 323 individual items. Approximately two thirds of the documents were acquired by gift, the rest by purchase. The Terezín Memorial has also obtained by gift the estate of Else Hladíková; the donor was […]
Michaela Vidláková
Michaela Vidláková was born to Irma and Jiří Lauscher in Prague on December 30, 1936. Her mother was a teacher in the Jewish elementary school in Prague´s Jáchymova Street, her father was employed in various companies, working mostly in clerical jobs. Both parents, supporters of Zionism, were actively involved in preparatory courses for emigration to […]
The Terezín Ghetto and the Hartman Family
In the fall of 2019 the Terezín Memorial obtained by gift a valuable set of 22 works of art created in the Terezín Ghetto. These include two watercolor drawings by Edita Hartmanová and twenty works made by her son Jan Hartman (primarily watercolor Indian ink drawings). Most of the items depict everyday life in the […]
We Do Not Forget – autumn transports from the Ghetto Terezín in 1944 and reminiscences of two human fates
Seventy-five years will have elapsed in the autumn of 2019 since the time when – between September 28 and October 28, 1944 – more than 18,000 inmates left the Terezín Ghetto in 11 transports heading to the East. We reported on these transports, on their historical context and on the methods of their organization in […]
