Director of the Terezín Initiative Institute dismissed after nine years

For twenty years, the non-profit organization Institute of the Terezín Initiative (ITI) has been creating a unique database of 175,000 Czechoslovak Holocaust victims. In addition, IT organizes a well-known annual nationwide event – the Public Reading of the Holocaust Victims` Names – Yom Ha-Shoa. This event was probably the reason for the dismissal of director Tereza Štěpková. The Board of Directors removed her from day to day without giving a valid reason. The chairman of the board, Pavel Štingl, appointed a lawyer, Martin Thiel, to replace her. ITI staff fear that the victims' database and other projects will be suspended or cancelled.

Tisková zpráva vydaná k jmenování nového ředitele (CZ)

Director of the Terezín Initiative Institute dismissed after nine years

Statement by the staff of the Terezin Initiative Institute on the dismissal of director Tereza Štěpková

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