(Taking a look at the collections of the Terezín Memorial) Animal figurines made of dough rank quite indisputably among the Memorial´s collection items that offer truly compelling life stories. These exhibits were donated to the collections of the Terezín Memorial by Mrs. Helga Peroutková who had kept them until her 94 years. Thanks to the […]
TM Collections
75th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Terezín Memorial and the Exhibitions: The Terezín Memorial in the Changes of Time 1989 – 2022 and New Accessions to the Collections of the Terezín Memorial from the Years 2017 – 2021
From the history of the Terezín Memorial In 1947, on May 6, the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic passed a ruling on the establishment of a Memorial of National Suffering in the premises of the Small Fortress. Since that area had then been administered by the Ministry of National Defense it had to be transferred […]
New Accession to the Collection of the Terezín Memorial
In 2019 the Terezín Memorial took advantage of an offer made by the Jewish Community in Prague to acquire its books kept in the depository of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences at Jenštejn. The books in this collection come from various sources. Some had been seized from individual Jewish communities and persons of […]
A decorative box made by Milena Jesenská
From the Collections of the Terezín Memorial Milena Jesenská was born to her mother Milena, née Hejzlarová, and father Jan Jesenský in Prague on August 10, 1896. She attended the Minerva high school for girls and after graduation she followed her father´s wish and began studying medicine at Charles University. But a year later she […]
