„I felt compelled to write Children of the Holocaust.“ Although Helen Epstein was born after the war and did not directly experience the Holocaust, it has haunted her and many other ‘children of the Holocaust’ since childhood, like a curse that they do not understand and cannot name. It weighs on them like an overwhelming […]
Interview
Terezín Memorial´s Exhibition The Unbroken
The exhibition called The Unbroken opened in the Terezín Memorial, in the lobby of its Small Fortress cinema on September 19, 2024. Its author, Hana Procházková, is an employee of the Memorial´s Department of Documentation. The following interview highlights some of the facts from behind the scenes of the exhibition. The exhibition features twenty-one panels […]
Interview with Michael Michner about the documentary exhibition of the Terezín Memorial’s Department of Collections Hard Days Followed by Moments of Hope
In mid-March 2024, the exhibition Hard Days Followed by Moments of Hope was inaugurated in the lobby of the Small Fortress cinema in the Terezín Memorial. The exposition presents selected objects, artworks and documents created by the inmates of the Terezín Prison in the Small Fortress between 1940 and 1945 during their clandestine cultural, social […]
Aida Mujačič and Terezín Composer Karel Reiner
Singer and pianist Aida Mujačič was born in the city of Tuzla in former Yugoslavia. As a child, she had experienced the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s. At present she lives in Prague, committing herself to the promotion of Bosnian folk songs, including Jewish tunes sung in the Ladino language (medieval Spanish), […]
