In honor of the International Holocaust Memorial Day, which was established by the UN in 2005, the Czech and Israeli embassies in Beijing jointly held a Holocaust Memorial Event on February 28, 2019.
The event included a lecture by Mr. Michael Tal, Curator and Director of the Artifacts department of Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, titled: "Personal Stories from Theresienstadt Ghetto". The lecture tells stories and presents pictures of personal items and different artworks made by Jewish people who lived in the ghetto during the Holocaust.
Theresienstadt was a concentration camp established by the Nazis during the Second World War in the city of Terezín, located in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. More than 159,000 Jews, first from Czech lands, later from Germany, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Slovakia, and Hungary, were deported to Theresienstadt.
The event also introduced a special Exhibition, telling the story of artwork created during the holocaust in Theresienstadt Ghetto.
In this Holocaust Memorial Event, the two embassies made a joint effort to further the historical remembrance of the Holocaust and underline the importance of education, tolerance and the human spirit.