Object of the month
2015
Photograph of Rabbi Gustav Sicher
On the 21st of August 2015 we will be commemorating the 135th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Sicher (1880-1960), one of the most prominent Czech rabbis of the twentieth century. He was born in the town of Klatovy, western Bohemia, the son...
2015
Photo of Stefan Baretzki during a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, spring 1944
The Auschwitz Album is a unique set of photographs that documents the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in the spring of 1944. The photographs depict the arrival, selection and processing of the so-called “Hungarian Transports” that came to...
2015
Ilona Singer-Weinberger: Girl with Forsythia
The beginning of June 2015 marks 110 years since the birth of painter Ilona Singer. During her short life, tragically ended in an Auschwitz gas chamber, she managed to attract the attention of a small circle of admirers and supporters of...
2015
A Letter from Eliška/Líza Margoliusová addressed to Josefa and Vilém Kopřiva after the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Thirteen-year-old Eliška/Líza Margoliusová was deported from Prague on 17th December 1941 to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, together with her parents and her younger sister, Helena, on a deportation train designated with the letter N. The family...
2015
Torah shield donated by Lämel of Tuschkau
This month marks the 170th anniversary of the death of the wholesale merchant and banker Simon von Lämel, who was born in the west Bohemian town of Město Touškov (German: Tuschkau) on the 28th of August 1766. The son of a wool merchant, he took...
2015
Photograph of a map showing the main transit routes for Jewish refugees travelling from Poland via Czechoslovak territory
The end of the Second World War did not put an end to the armed conflicts and murders. In Poland a civil war was raging between the Soviet-imposed Communist government and the anti-Communists. Ukrainian nationalist units and various criminal...
2015
Suitcase with a secret compartment
One of the most recent acquisitions made by the Jewish Museum in Prague is a suitcase that tellingly documents the fate that befell members of the Jewish community in 1950s Czechoslovakia.
This suitcase belonged to Evžen...
2014
Album of photographs from the refugee camp in Německý Brod (now Havlíčkův Brod)
During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of people fled from areas near the front lines to the inner regions of the Habsburg monarchy. They abandoned their homes out of fear of the approaching front, fighting, pillaging, rape and lack...
2014
Hilde Pollak (Vienna, November 2, 1874 – Treblinka, October 19, 1942): Expressionen I-XII, c. 1920
Hilde (Hildegarda) Pollak was born November 2, 1874, in Vienna. Her parents were Max Kontányi and his wife Henriette (Czech var. Jindřiška), née Deutsch. All that is known about here life and work to date comes from bits of unpublished...