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 […]
TM Collections
Plan of a wedding journey around the Ghetto and other objects – as a reminder of one wedding in the Terezín Ghetto
(From the collections of the Terezín Memorial) In addition to many other noteworthy exhibits, the collections of the Terezín Memorial comprise objects relating to a somewhat neglected subject: namely weddings in the Terezín Ghetto. Between 1942 and 1945 several hundred weddings took place in the Ghetto. One of them has been documented to this day […]
A Scale Model of a Polikarpov Fighter Plane from the Police Prison Terezín
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 […]
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 […]