"Moravia was for centuries a refuge for Jews from neighbouring countries and these newcomers contributed in many ways to the culture, society and religious life of the Moravian ...

Fioretta April 28, 2024 at the Art Cinema Although it was a sunny Sunday, the late afternoon screening of Fioretta at the Art Cinema ...

Apart from the Mehrin book, which summarizes what has happened in the four years of preparation, we can safely say that the first title published in the Mehrin series is David Placzek's book entitled Memoirs.

The Czech-German Fund for the Future is among the important supporters and partners of our activities since 2021. We appreciate this support!

There are some assignments that one takes special pleasure in doing, and one of them is thanking SAKO This spring, we ...

Someone has offered us here and there an interesting object or correspondence from ancestors that they think belongs in a museum, as will ...

On the first of April the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Martin Baxa visited our "temporary" museum. He was personally guided through the exhibition Carriers of Memory by its author Martin Šmok. The Minister ...

Since the beginning of the project, we have published several brochures highlighting what has happened in the project. We have been preparing for this over the summer ...

The project to build the Moravian Jewish Museum in the form we dreamed of four years ago is progressing well. We have a great design for a new building from the Japanese ...

It's just a formality, but quite important. The Board of Trustees decided at its meeting on 6 March that the Foundation will also get rid of its ...

On Tuesday, 11 October, in the early evening, an exhibition on the international architectural competition for the MEHRIN Museum building was opened. Visitors can see ...

  The architectural competition for the new building of the Moravian Jewish MuseumMEHRIN is already past the halfway point, and so the place where the new building will be ...

The competition began on 1 February 2022 and the winning design is expected to be announced in early September this year. The nine-member jury is headed by Czech architecture legend Ing. arch. Josef Pleskot. [...]

We signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the director of the Moravian Library, Professor Tomáš Kubíček, according to which a branch of the Moravian Library should be established in the premises of Mehrin, focusing on Judaica, Hebrew, Jewish authors and other related literature. [...]

After all the covid restrictions, the opportunity to travel finally presented itself in the autumn of 2021. Martin Reiner, the founder of the project, visited Ypres, Berlin and Jezuzalem.

The international conference was finally successful - and live! - took place, even though nothing was certain until three weeks before the start. [...]

The international conference, which will take place on 20-23 June, has not only a great line-up but also a very attractive programme. [...]

Martin Reiner, the director of the Foundation, met in Prague with Karel Poupět and Radovan Síbrt, who (together with Alžbieta Karásková) form the production ...

For the second time, circumstances forced the conference to be postponed from the end of April to 20 June. We hope that this date will work out. [...]

Yesterday, on 3 November 2020, the Director of the Foundation Martin Reiner met with the Mayor of Brno Markéta Vaňková at the Brno City Hall to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation in the presence of a photographer. [...]

The first board meeting in March was interrupted by coronavirus measures, so we finally met at the end of the holidays. [...]

The immediate task of the Foundation is to organize a large international conference. In the spring of 2021, experts on the Holocaust and ...

On 12 May 2020, the first, very important stage of the project was completed. [...]

The planned Holocaust Documentation Centre in Moravia could be established in Brno within ten years and become the most modern Czech museum ever. It will bring ...

The fate of the Jews in Moravia could be mapped by a new modern museum in Brno. The Brno writer, publisher and opposition politician ...

To map the history of the Jews in the region and recall the darkest periods of their history. The Holocaust Documentation Centre in Moravia will be established in Brno with this intention. ...