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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Jews in the Czech Republic

A visitor takes a photo at the Museum of Survivors, located in a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1,200 Jews during WWII, in Brnenec, Czech Republic, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
May 12, 2025, 3:53 pm
Museum opens at former Czech factory where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews
Museum of Survivors tells story of Jewish population that lived in region; Daniel Löw-Beer, a descendant of those who fled, initiated project to ’emotionally’ bring family back
By Karel Janicek
Congregants from Ec Chajim pray in Prague's Klausen Synagogue on Yom Kippur, October 11, 2024. (Dana Cabanova; courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague)
October 13, 2024, 11:32 pm
Historic Prague synagogue sees first Yom Kippur service since the Holocaust
Until recently home to a Jewish Museum exhibit, 17th-century Klausen hosted a local progressive congregation whose regular space couldn’t fit the crowds expected for the sacred day
By Shira Li Bartov
Pavlina Sulcova holds a copy of 'Are We There Yet Moses' outside her office at the Prague Creative Center, October 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
January 21, 2023, 3:27 am
Directing a virtual JCC, one woman is making Jewish Prague the envy of its neighbors
When COVID scuttled director Pavlina Sulcova’s plans to open a new community space, a pivot to fun educational content paid off big time. She just released her 2nd children’s book
By Yaakov Schwartz
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, September 7, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague via JTA)
September 14, 2022, 8:37 am
Prague cobblestones made from Jewish headstones returned to community
‘Return of the Stones’ monument part of larger effort to address desecration of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe after the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
President Isaac Herzog speaks to reporters before departing for a visit to Turkey on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)
July 10, 2022, 8:00 am
Herzog to visit Czech Republic, meet with officials and members of Jewish community
Statement from president’s office says two nations ‘share historical affinity that has found expression in moments of crisis and difficulty’
By ToI Staff
The grave of Martin Davidovich, the man named by the Israel Defense Forces as the nation’s first fallen paratrooper, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, on October 28, 2021. (IDF)
October 28, 2021, 9:53 pm
IDF’s 1st fallen paratrooper buried in Israel, 73 years after his death
Auschwitz survivor Martin Davidovich was killed during 1948 Czechoslovakia exercise for force of Jewish volunteers that was set to emigrate to Israel and formally join military
By ToI Staff
Martin Davidovich (Courtesy)
October 23, 2021, 10:57 am
IDF’s 1st fallen paratrooper to be buried in Israel, 73 years after his death
Auschwitz survivor Martin Davidovich was killed during 1948 Czechoslovakia exercise for force of Jewish volunteers that was set to emigrate to Israel and formally join military
By ToI Staff
A Torah scroll that the Nazis stole from a Czech congregation on display at The Memorial Scrolls Trust in London. (Courtesy of the European Union for Progressive Judaism via JTA)
September 20, 2021, 11:15 pm
Torah stolen by Nazis for post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ back in use in Prague
130-year-old scroll will be used in a service on Simchat Torah for first time since it was looted by the Nazis in 1942
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Demonstrators gather during a protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Prague, Czech Republic, January 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
June 9, 2021, 2:48 pm
Online antisemitism rises in Czech Republic amid pandemic
Federation of the Jewish Communities report says 98% of anti-Jewish incidents recorded in 2020 took place online, concludes country still safe for Jews
By AP
Some of the 700 paintings by Jewish artist Gertrud Kauders which she hid in a classmate's house during the Holocaust. (Amos Chapple/RFE/RL via JTA)
October 7, 2020, 11:44 am
Czech Jewish artist’s works, hidden in walls since Holocaust, finally see light
Trove discovered recently in ‘breathtaking’ development, as old house of Gertrud Kauders’ classmate near Prague is demolished; now the paintings need a new home
By Toby Axelrod
Orthodox Jewish men use 'social distancing' as they pray outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, March 20, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, before leaders of six major organizations released a joint statement urging worshipers to 'avoid, to the maximum extent feasible, any outside interactions' to help stop the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
May 9, 2020, 12:37 am
Prague Jews ship medical equipment to New York peers
Czech Jewish foundation sends shipment of masks, face shields, donated by kosher-certified companies; plans to send 3,000 respirators for first responders
By AFP
Scene from a Nazi documentary filmed in the Theresienstadt ghetto during the summer of 1944 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
August 5, 2019, 11:51 pm
74 years since liberation, a visit to Theresienstadt finds an eerie ghost town
Unique in the Nazi empire, Theresienstadt was both a way-station to Auschwitz for Jews and a well-planned show camp to deceive diplomats about the Holocaust
By Matt Lebovic
A visitor looks at the collection of drawings at the Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, Jan. 24, 2019, made by Jewish children who passed through the Terezin Ghetto during WWII (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
January 26, 2019, 5:55 pm
Dreams of Theresienstadt children on display in drawings exhibit
Artwork at Prague’s Jewish Museum was saved by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who taught secret art classes at Nazi camp and hid the drawings before she was sent to a death camp
By AP
Norm Eisen, left, meeting Vaclav Havel in Prague. (Forum 2000/via JTA)
September 24, 2018, 8:54 am
Trump critic’s book about Prague is a metaphor for Jewish anti-authoritarianism
Former US ambassador Norm Eisen’s ‘The Last Palace’ is an ode to his mother’s homeland and the historic estate he occupied for 3 years, and a grave warning on illiberal democracy
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: A Shabbat sermon at Prague’s Spanish Synagogue during the European Union of Progressive Judaism’s biennial, April 2018. (Courtesy of Maxa/via JTA)
September 23, 2018, 10:15 pm
A new Torah scroll symbolizes a Liberal Jewish revival in the Czech Republic
A relic originating in the country is being returned after having spent the last several decades at a Reform synagogue in London
By Margarita Gokun Silver
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