Let us recall the life story of an exceptional woman, Libuše Friesová who was awarded in 1999 the title Righteous among the Nations for saving the lives of four people. The award-giving ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Prague was attended, among other people, by two of the saved women, namely her sister-in-law Erna Seykorová […]
Historical articles
Documents of Irma Jílovská in the Terezín Memorial Collections
In 2022, the Terezín Memorial added to its collections, in addition to other items, two documents that had belonged to Irma Jílovská, incarcerated in the Terezín Ghetto on racial grounds during wartime Nazi occupation of this country. These include her identity card and her summons to a transport from the Terezín Ghetto to the East. […]
Stanislav Šmolík and a Pocketknife from the Gestapo Prison in Terezín´s Small Fortress
Stanislav Šmolík was born to father Alois and mother Anežka (née Loukotová) in Libušín near Kladno on June 25, 1906. After finishing his school attendance he earned his living as a tinsmith. Already in his youth he came into contact with communist ideas, and in 1925 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Shortly after […]
Hanuš Thein
As many as 1,057 prisoners arrived in the Terezín Ghetto in a transport codenamed AE 1 (Arbeitseinsatztransporte) on January 31, 1945. These were Jewish partners from what were called mixed marriages (one of the couple was classified as a Jew according to would-be legislative norms, the Nuremberg Laws). Hanuš Thein, a man of the theater, […]
