Online Textbook on Holocaust
This project aims to introduce children to the history of Holocaust – the racial discrimination and the persecution of Jews, Roma and others.
What the project should offer:
1. comprehensible material – authentic digitalized documents, photographs and videos with accompanying commentary
2. material interconnected with related information
3. documents with voice outputs – videos that provide the possibility to read and at the same time to listen to the content of a document from this period of time– newspaper articles, reports, memoirs etc.
The historical education on Holocaust is not only about the Jewish community and other persecuted minorities, but also about the perpetrators, those responsible for the discrimination and the persecution and about bystanders as well. The necessity of a discourse about the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and racism arises from those who spread or practise the ideologies.
The outcomes of the first project phase are accessible on holocaust.cz .
The project is financially supported by:
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On Sunday we remembered the victims of Nazi persecution at a commemorative event marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation. The event took place at the National Cemetery in front of the Small Fortress in Terezín. The event was organized by the Terezín Memorial under the auspices of the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, co-organized by the Ústí nad Labem Region, the City of Terezín, the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic and the Terezín Initiative.
Anne Frank Youth Network - Your voice against discrimination, prejudice and racism!
On Sunday, 12 May 2024, representatives of the Terezín Initiative Institute attended a commemorative gathering to honor the memory of the Roma victims of the Holocaust.
This year's Yom HaShoah also includes the exhibition MemoMap: the History of the Holocaust in Prague. It will be on display in the outdoor spaces of the Klementinum from Monday, May 6 (Yom HaShoah), until Sunday, May 19, 2024.
In 16 panels, the exhibition shows how the space of Prague was reduced, for those who were identified as Jews, in response to the Protectorate's issuance of anti-Jewish decrees. The orders and regulations led to the creation of invisible barriers that prevented contact between Jewish and non-Jewish residents of Prague even before Jews were called to transports and deported to concentration camps.
On Tuesday, the director of the Terezín Initiative Institute, Tomáš Kraus, accompanied German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his walk through Prague. The topics of the cordial conversation included the past and present of the Czech Jewish community, the literary legacy of Franz Kafka, the Musica Non Grata project and, last but not least, the activities of the ITI.
You are cordially invited to the public reading of the names of Holocaust victims on Yom HaShoah 2024, which will take place this year on May 6. Come together to remember those whose lives were tragically cut short during the Holocaust. The event will be held in various cities, so check the attached poster for times and locations. Take a moment to reflect and remember the victims. We would be delighted if you could join us.
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:
- Commemoration at Auschwitz-Birkenau
- The MemoMap exhibition: History of the Holocaust in Prague
- International cooperation
- Anne Frank Youth Network
- MemoGIS Workshop
- Austrian Traces in Terezín