The Terezín Commemoration is held annually on each third Sunday in May at the end of the International Memorial Days of Resistance as a legacy of the so-called Oath of Buchenwald. Its core is a declaration made by the liberated inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 that they would not cease commemorating war […]
Terezin Memorial Events
International Scientific Conference in the Terezín Memorial
To mark the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Ghetto in Terezín, the Memorial staged a scientific conference ”The Terezín Ghetto and the Police Prison in Terezín in the Repressive System of the Occupation Power (1940–1945)“ on November 1 and 2, 2021. The working seminar, marking the 80th anniversary of the establishment of […]
Terezín Memorial and the Databases of Politically and Racially Persecuted Persons
The early days of the individual databases of the Terezín Memorial date back to the year 1998. At that time, the employees of the Memorial´s Department of History got down to compiling the first database containing data on the former inmates of the Gestapo Police Prison Terezín.[1] The process of digitizing the collections got under […]
Day of Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, 27. 1. 2021
On January 27, 2021 we commemorated the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. This day has been marked in the Czech Republic since 2004 as the Day of Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity. In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27 as the International Day to […]
