An aluminum scale model of the Soviet fighter aircraft Polikarpov I-16 stands out as a unique exhibit in the collections of the Terezín Memorial. It was made in the workshops of the Gestapo Police Prison in Terezín´s Small Fortress by inmates Josef Formánek and Emil Král, possibly as a gift for Formánek´s sons Leoš and […]
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Request
Dear readers, we turn to you with the following courteous request: on the chance that you have still in your possession any kind of documents, objects or photographs linked to the Nazi persecution on the territory of the Czech Republic, please, donate them to the Terezin Memorial. Above all we are interested in […]
Life of František Crhounek in Documents
In 2018 the Terezín Memorial´s Department of Documentation obtained by gift a total of eighteen written documents and photographs connected with the history of the Gestapo Prison in the Small Fortress Terezín, the Terezín Ghetto and other Nazi persecution facilities. These are various extensive files as well as individual items. In addition to other acquisitions, […]
From the New Arrivals to the Collections of the Terezín Memorial – a Prison Jacket and an Army Identification Tag
A number of valuable new arrivals have been added to the collections of the Terezín Memorial this year. Some of them have been acquired thanks to a call for salvaging and preserving evidence and traces documenting Nazi persecution, that the Memorial has repeatedly published through its communication channels. Two new collection items are presented here. […]
