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 Hartmannová and twenty works made by her son Jan Hartmann (primarily watercolor Indian ink drawings). Most of the items depict everyday life in the […]
Historical articles
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 […]
Bohumila Havránková
Bohumila Havránková, née Picková, was born into a Czech-speaking family in Liberec on November 17, 1927. Her mother, a trained dressmaker, stayed at home, while her father was a retail and wholesale trader in textile. While mother was a non-practicing Catholic, father – as a member of the Jewish community –had both his daughters entered, […]
TEREZÍN GHETTO 1941 – 1945.
EVIDENCE AND TRACES
Documentation on the Extant Traces from the Time of the Ghetto in the Topography of Today´s Terezín To date, the history of the Terezín Ghetto (1941 – 1945) has been examined and traced in many extensive studies, and yet the general public is still quite unaware of the fact that the entire town of Terezín […]
