On August 11th more than 50 selected Jewish monuments in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia will be open for free, allowing visitors to visit cemeteries and synagogues that are not usually accessible, or recently underwent an expensive reconstruction.
he 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.
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.
On August 13th more than 50 selected Jewish monuments in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia will be open for free, allowing visitors to visit cemeteries and synagogues that are not usually accessible, or recently underwent an expensive reconstruction.
Concert by Dominika Weiss Hošková and Jiří Hošek
On August 14th more than 50 selected Jewish monuments in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia will be open for free, allowing visitors to visit cemeteries and synagogues that are not usually accessible, or recently underwent an expensive reconstruction
Výstava zapůjčená Národním archivem v Praze
Písně židovských autorů v podání Petry Ernyeiové s doprovodem kytary a kontrabasu
More than 50 selected Jewish monuments in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia will be open for free, allowing visitors to visit cemeteries and synagogues that are not usually accessible, or recently underwent an expensive reconstruction.
Výstava mimořádných záběrů české krajiny kameramana a fotografa Lubomíra Stiburka
Concert and a workshop of Aida Mujačič from Bosnia. Participants in the workshop will learn one Jewish song rooted in the Medieval Spain.
The exhibition prepared by Středoceska vedecka knihovna v Kladne will present 42 Jewish authors who were born or have spent part of their lives in the Central Bohemian Region.
The third year of The Jewish Monuments Day in the Czech Republic will take place on Sunday, August 11, 2019. More than 50 selected Jewish monuments in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia will be open for free, allowing visitors to visit cemeteries and synagogues that are not usually accessible, or recently underwent an expensive reconstruction.
Cycle of drawings by an American artist, author, filmmaker and physician, devoted to Jewish monuments reconstructed in the years 2010 – 2014. In 2019, the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic awarded Mark Podwal the prestigious Gratias Agit Prize.
Jewish music - concert
An exhibition of photographs by Martin Lazarovič
On 15 panels of this exhibition many so far unpublished photographs are shown together with other archive material from the visit of President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk to the Holly Land in 1927.
Free admission
The exhibition presents the activities of The Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WW II Victims, p.b.o. The task of this institution is the research into the problematics of cultural assets stolen or confiscated from the victims of the II World War, identification of these assets and the questions connected with their restitution to the rightful owners or their descendants. The visitor is acquainted through texts and photographic material with the fate of particular art collections and with the fate of their owners.
Reduced entrance fee 10 CZK
Exhibition documenting the relationship between Czechoslovakia and the State of Israel during communism
Concert of soloists of the Basic Art School singers classes
Reduced entrance fee