The mission of The Terezin Initiative is to bring together and to represent former prisoners of the Terezin Ghetto and other concentration camps, who were interned as a result of anti-Jewish persecution. The Terezin Initiative has 730 members in the Czech Republic, 80 in Slovakia and 330 members abroad. It strives to preserve, in a dignified manner, the memory of those who did not survive and it has undertaken the documentation of the Terezin Ghetto history in order to make it known to the younger generations who did not live during the Nazi period. The activities of The Terezin Initiative include documentation, education, social and medical support and organization of exhibits. 

The funding of all Terezin Initiative projects comes exclusively from members contributions and from bequests and gifts from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals. The members of the presiding body and the secreteriat all volunteer their services. 
A partial list of accomplishments:

• A plaque commemorating the departure of transports at the Park Hotel in Prague. On October 16 of each year, flowers are placed here in memory of all who perished. 
• A plaque commemorating Fredy Hirsch in the Terezin Garden of Children. 
• A plaque commemorating Terzin artists at the Prague Jewish cemetery. 
• A plaque commemorating all those who looked after children in the Terezin Ghetto and were later murdered by the Nazis, which is to be unveiled in Terezin on Nevember 12, 1998. 

• A Claims Conference grant for the purchase of a van used to transport invalids. 
• A Claims Conference grant for medical and social assistance. 
• Funding for the gathering of young people and school children in Terezin where The Terezin Initiative participated in the construction of a meeting center at the Magdeburg Barracks.