"We did not want to erect a statue or a monument in memory of the victims of ghetto Theresienstadt that would represent the suffering of the past with no bridge to the future. We wanted to build a place in which life goes on… hoping that those coming to commemorate them will feel here some of the atmosphere of the ghetto, that they would understand what it meant to maintain something similar to culture, to keep principles of justice and honesty, friendship and mutual help in the shadow of death". That is what the founders of Beit Theresienstadt wrote, survivors of ghetto Theresienstadt, in the deed of foundation when they started to build this house. The memorial hall with its attached archives grew with time and became an education center and museum. Specific exhibitions, that are based on original items from the archives, were created. The exhibitions represent life in the ghetto, the enormous effort of the Jewish leadership to care for children's education and their rescue, the maintenance of culture and sport in an impossible reality, with transports to the East, the German propaganda and more.
