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.
A joint performance by cellists Jiří Hošek, his daughter Dominika Weiss Hošková, and children and siblings Adina, Noah, Micha, Amos, and Natália. The program includes music by Jewish authors and klezmer music.
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.
The authors of the exhibition PhDr. Hana Králová, Ph.D. from NTM Prague and Mgr. Martin Sovák from SOA Prague will guide you through the interesting history of the Waldes company and the fate of its founder Jindřich Waldes, "the button king"