In late October and early November 2014, a group of 18 teachers from all over the Czech Republic took part in an educational seminar held in the Yad Vashem Memorial in Israeli Jerusalem. This seminar, organized by the Yad Vashem Memorial, the Czech Ministry of Education and the Terezín Memorial, is always the highlight in […]
Seminars for educators
International Seminar for Czech teachers at Terezín Memorial
From 27th to 30th November 2014, the Terezín Memorial hosted the 14th annual seminar on “Holocaust in Education”, attended by 36 Czech teachers. While the first stage of seminars titled “How to teach about the Holocaust” is lectured only by Czech experts, lecturers for this second stage are invited from foreign institutions as well. Their […]
Seminar for Polish teachers
At the weekend of 30th May – 1st June 2014, a training seminar for Polish teachers called Terezín – The Place of Memory was held. Less than thirty teachers from different parts of Poland attended the three-day programme focused mainly on increasing knowledge about the Terezin ghetto and the Gestapo police prison in the Small […]
Seminar for Czech and Polish teachers in Auschwitz
Thorough inspections of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps, special visit to publicly inaccessible block 10 associated with horrible experiments on women, information on the conservation laboratories of the museum and a meeting with the survivor of the Warsaw uprising and a subsequent prisoner of Auschwitz II – Birkenau, today a poet Bogdan Bartnikowsky – […]