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General Information

Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud was erected in memory of the Jews of Ghetto Theresienstadt who perished during the Nazi persecution.
The corner stone was laid in 1969 and the official opening was in 1975. The "Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association" built this edifice through the initiative of the surviving members of the Zionist Youth Movement and the "Hechalutz" organization living in Israel. Not a mute monument but a living and active institution.

Activities of Beit Theresienstadt:

Educational Center prepares curricula on the Holocaust and organizes one day workshops for pupils, students and teachers - from Israel and abroad.
Our staff provides guidance for Holocaust studies and research regarding the fate of Jews from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland, Denmark and other countries. from which prisoners were brought to Ghetto Terezin.
An annual meeting of the members of our association is being held.
Organization of Second Generation Activities.
Exhibitions of works of Art by Terezin Artists.
Maintaining archives and collections of documents, testimonies and artifacts concerning Ghetto Theresienstadt.
Information on the fate of the nearly 150,000 prisoners of Ghetto Terezin is stored in our Computerized Data Base and available on request. The fee for a query is Nis.15.00 - per name.
Edition and distribution of "Dapei Kesher", a newsletter issued twice yearly in Hebrew, English and German.

Opening hours and Connections

         Beit Terezin is open:
         Sunday through Thursday as from   08.00   till   15.00.

         There is also a possibility for a visit during other hours
         of day but this has to be pre-coordinated.

         More Information:
         Phone: 04-6369515
           or
         Fax: 04-6369793
           or
         E-mail    bterezin@ghi.org.il or bterezin@ghi.org.il
           or
         address:
         Beit Terezin Givat Haim Ihud Israel M.p. Emek Hefer.

Particulars about Beit Terezin are brought to public by means of publication booklets of Museums Department, of the Educational File, of an Advertising company to religious Schools.
There are circulars distributed yearly, informing schools about existence of seminary days, maintained in Beit Terezin.

Number of visitors

The visitors number - Israelis and from the Diaspora - is about 8,000 yearly, and about 4,800 yearly visitors with guides.
The range of guidance activity: 31,200 hours yearly.
The Policy of admission fee, opening hours to public and general information for the public A visit in the Museum and the Ghetto Art Exhibition Hall is free of charge.
Donations are most welcome and needed.
If a visitor is interested to obtain information from the archives, guidance or information about his family relatives - this service also is given free of charge.
Use of the copying machine of Beit Terezin or rendering a typed information from the computerized information data bank -
involves a payment.

  A seminary day and a guided group visits coordinated well in time.

  Number of visitors in a group: up to 40 people.

  Payment for an 8 hours guided seminary day for a group - NIS 800.

  Payment for an 6 hours guided seminary day for a group - NIS 600.

  For the groups from abroad the prices are different.

Development plan for the next three years

About half a year ago the renovation stage of Beit Terezin came to an end. Our sight now is directed towards the continuation of changes and expansion. We are checking possibilities to refresh the permanent exhibition at the History Museum. It is important to us to safeguard the spirit of simplicity, focussing on the essence and the aesthetics, that guided the Museum's founders, but, also to utilize for this purpose the means which offer the know-how and the technology of today.
The Museum will be renovated after a scrutinized checking of the possibilities and by strictly observing the principles and aims of the founders. We hope to keep our promise to maintain in the renovated hall a permanent exhibition every year or every two years, according with the financial situation. We are at the beginning of discussions with the Kibbutz, regarding expansion possibilities, either in the existing building or using buildings that are not attached to the building but are near to it.
Together with the secretariat of the Kibbutz, diverse ideas are being discussed. Letters to members with application to hand over art creations, items, letters and other documents are being sent every year. The twice a year issued Newsletter repeats also this theme. Tens of new items are being received every year, and efforts and researches will be done in this direction, including visits at the homes of people who wish to donate items in their possession.