At the end of January 2025, a group of children from two primary schools – the Žulová Primary School and the T. G. Masaryk Primary School in Milovice – attended a joint educational seminar at the Terezín Memorial. After the course and their return home, the children from Žulová sent us an article detailing their […]
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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 […]
Irma Lauscherová and the Tree of the Terezín Children
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Irma Lauscherová. We were, therefore, delighted that her daughter, RNDr. Michaela Vidláková, complied with our request and wrote a short recollection of her mother´s life, complete with the story of the Tree of the Terezín Children. A maple tree once stood in the Jewish cemetery […]
Content Created for IWITNESS – Brněnec Concentration Camp
In collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and Open Eye, the Department of Education of the Terezín Memorial has developed the Brněnec Concentration Camp activity for the multimedia online educational platform IWITNESS. This content is one of 35 activities currently available to primary and secondary school pupils in the Czech language. These […]
