News

It includes an invitation to Yom HaShoah in Prague and other cities in the Czech Republic, an article on the 30th anniversary of ITI and information about our many activities:

1. Commemoration at Auschwitz-Birkenau
   
   
2. The MemoMap exhibition: History of the Holocaust in Prague
   
   
3. International cooperation

1. Anne Frank Youth Network
2. MemoGIS Workshop
3. Austrian Traces in Terezín

This year's 19th annual public reading of the names of Holocaust victims, "Yom HaShoah", will take place on 6 May 2024. The names of victims of Nazi persecution will be read in 31 cities across the Czech Republic, commemorating the fate of those who were murdered during the Second World War.

About a month ago, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Terezín Initiative Institute at the invitation of Austrian Ambassador Bettina Kirnbauer. Till Janzer from Radio Prague International also reported on the event. You can read or listen to the article under the following link (only in German).

We would like to invite you to an educational workshop called "Art Against Death", which we are organizing. This workshop will take place on April 13, 2024 from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm in Prague.

The latest Anne Frank Youth Network action project is complete!

In September 1943, five thousand Jews from the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were transported from the Terezín concentration camp to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in two transports for reasons that have not yet been made clear. 

Next week, on 8 and 9 March, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the so-called Terezín family camp at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Terezín Initiative Institute is organising a commemorative event on the site, with the Director of the Terezín Memorial, PhDr. Jan Roubínek as one of our guests.

On February 23 we had yet another cooperation with students from the University of New York in Prague through Verto Education. We organised a workshop on how Jewish life in Prague was affected by anti-Jewish laws during the Nazi occupation.

At the end of last year, we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Terezín Initiative Foundation, which transformed into our current Institute a couple years later. The highlight of the commemorative events for this anniversary was a reception that took place at the end of February in the ceremonial premises of the residence of the Austrian Embassy in Prague. We were honored to have been joined by the President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Miloš Vystrčil, as well as by the Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Olga Richterová.