In 2025, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, as well as the liberation of the Terezín Ghetto and the Gestapo Police Prison in the Small Fortress. Words such as “liberation” and “the end of the war” evoke positive feelings, symbolizing an end to the suffering endured by the prisoners […]
Historical articles
Reflections on War and Postwar Experiences…
Tired JoyMichal Flach So I have survived Out of my big heavy eyesI’m looking at the worldAnd my heart is heavy Hunger still sucks my strengthMy bones still hurt from yesterday’s blows So I have survivedSurvived? I look backAnd someone gives out milkAnd someone hands a towelAnd no one’s beating me if I can’t get […]
The life-story of Zuzana Peterová
Cooperation of the Terezín Memorial’s Department of Education with the So-Called Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors The life-story of Zuzana Peterová In 2023, the Department of Education of the Terezín Memorial commenced its collaboration with second-generation witnesses, who are the descendants of Holocaust survivors born after the war and who were not directly exposed to the traumatic […]
Otilie Davidová, Franz Kafka’s dearest sister
(October 29, 1892 Prague – October 7, 1943 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp) “Clean, genuine, honest, consistent. Humility and pride, perceptiveness and detachment, devotion and independence, shyness and courage in an unswerving balance,” Franz Kafka. The year 2024 marks the centenary anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka (1883–1924), we cannot help but remember the youngest of […]
