The early spring of 1945 found the ghetto putting on a front once again. And once again, everything was being mended, renovated, just like the year before (in the spring of 1944). The “redecorated” town was to serve as a proof of the care supposedly provided to elderly Jewish inmates. Special homes for the elderly […]
Historical articles
The last execution in Terezín
On the day Berlin was conquered by the Soviet troops, 2 May 1945, when the defeat of Nazi Germany was already irreversible, the last and historically largest execution took place in Terezín’s Gestapo police prison. Six days before the Red Army arrived in Terezín, 51 mostly young members of leftist resistance groups were killed by […]
Ghetto Terezín – by the end of the war
May 2010 will mark the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II and thus also of the abolishment of the Terezín Ghetto. This article aims to sum up the events that took place in Terezín in the final months of the war, in 1945. The end of 1944 and the first months of […]
Children’s magazines from the Terezín ghetto
Over the last few issues of the Terezín Memorial Newsletter, we have introduced three children’s magazines that originated in the ghetto, namely Vedem, Domov and Kamarád. Before we go on to bring you more detailed information on several others (Bonaco, Hlas půdy Q 306, Noviny, Rim Rim Rim) in the future, we would like to […]