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. […]
TM Collections
From the New Arrivals in the Department of Collections of the Terezín Memorial for 2017
A major addition to the collections of the Terezín Memorial is a set of 39 drawings and paintings on paper, created in the Terezín Ghetto. In 2017, the collection was donated to the Terezín Memorial by Mrs. Věra Pešinová. These are works of art from the estate of her parents: Vilém Cantor (1907-1981) and Greta […]
From the Terezín Memorial´s Depository
Cinerary Urn of Hermine Mayer as a Recollection of One of the Fates of Austrian and German Jews in the Terezín Ghetto One of the few 3D collection items, recalling the fate of more than 47,000 German and Austrian Jews deported to Terezín in 1942, is the cinerary urn of Hermine Mayer. The urn was […]
