In May 2012 we are going to commemorate already the 65th anniversary of the Terezin Memorial’s establishment. Let us view the chain of events attached to this important institution. 6th May 1947 The Czechoslovak government established the Memorial of National Suffering in the premises of the Small Fortress. One year before, the tradition of May […]
Historical articles
The life story of a young painter from the Terezin ghetto…
Helga Weissova – Hošková (born 1929) In 1939, when the Protectorate was established and the persecution of the Jewish population in it started, Helga was 10 years old. She got gradually more and more affected by various anti-Jewish measures. In December 1941 she and her parents were put on the transport marked with the letter […]
…stories of two students…
Miroslav Kubik (born on 7th November 1925) In the report for K H Frank written by Kladno Gestapo he was identified as one of the “principal plotters“ of the attempt on A. Bauer’s life, thus in fact already very soon after his arrest his further fate was decided: he would not be released from the […]
Beginning of the ghetto in Terezín – anniversary of the first transports
70 years have passed since the sad events in Autumn 1941. What had preceded them? What did 15th March 1939, the day of occupation by Nazi Germany, mean for solving the Jewish question? As early as on 21st June 1939, the Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath issued a comprehensive decree on Jewish property, forbade Jews […]
