the suffering of the Jews in the years 1938–1945, culminating in the tragedies in the extermination camps, is still overshadowed by the fact that the Czechoslovak Jews did not surrender to the fate of the persecuted community and, despite the increased terror, joined the resistance in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. Thousands of them became members of the Czechoslovak army and fought against Nazism on all fronts of the Second World War with arms in hand.
Another stop of the traveling exhibition, which maps the life and work of the founder of the famous Koh-i-noor company, Jindřich Waldes, whose company was made famous by an innovative press stud, the Koh-i-noor snap, which also became part of the emblem, which features a woman's head with a button in her eye.
Hieronymus Lorm, original name Heinrich Landesmann, was an Austrian deaf-blind poet, philosopher and militant journalist, coming from a Jewish family from Mikulov. At the age of 15 he lost his hearing, and gradually his sight. Nevertheless, from the age of twenty he was still interested in what was happening around him, and created a tactile language, the so-called Lorm alphabet, which is still used internationally today. The exhibition will guide you through his life and work.
Exhibitions by Jana Ligmajerová at the Gallery of the synagogogue in Polná
What do you know about bromography? You can learn about this photographic technique, which was used in the past to reproduce postcards and artistic photographs, at an exhibition in the synagogue and the rabbi’s residence in Polná.
Cultural Program for the Season 2026
Free admission
Lecture by Ivana Jael Nepalová
Synagoga a rabínský dům představí dvě výstavy v rámci již 34. festivalu pro židovskou čtvrť