Jindřich Karpíšek was born in Jičín on May 31, 1905. He attended primary and junior secondary school in the town, after which he graduated from the teacher training institute. In 1925, he began his military service in Turnov and graduated from the school for reserve officers in Josefov. He subsequently had teaching jobs in a […]
TM Collections
140,000 New scans of Collection Items thanks to a grant from the Claims Conference
At the beginning of 2021, the Terezín Memorial built a digitization center thanks to funds from the grant Shoah Research, Education and Documentation awarded by the Claims Conference organization. The center was equipped with an I2S CopiBook Open A2+ scanner and the LIMB program, on which the scans are processed, i.e. so called post-processing. Information […]
Animal Figurines Made of Dough
(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 […]
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 […]
