In August 2022 the Czech Republic played host to the 26th ICOM General Conference (August 20 – 28), entitled ICOM Prague 2022, “The Power of Museumsˮ. Held once in three years, this conference serves as a hub for promoting international contacts among museums. This year´s conference venue was the Congress Center Prague and its main […]
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Plan of a wedding journey around the Ghetto and other objects – as a reminder of one wedding in the Terezín Ghetto
(From the collections of the Terezín Memorial) In addition to many other noteworthy exhibits, the collections of the Terezín Memorial comprise objects relating to a somewhat neglected subject: namely weddings in the Terezín Ghetto. Between 1942 and 1945 several hundred weddings took place in the Ghetto. One of them has been documented to this day […]
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 […]
Touring Exhibition Being at School in the War Years
Two years elapsed in March this year since the opening of a touring exhibition entitled Being at School in the War Years (1938 – 1945) in the Faculty of Education of the Charles University in Prague. The display summed up the work carried out by the teams taking part in the project of the same […]
