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Patronage of the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic

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. [...]

Ceremonial signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation

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 Documentation Centre has its own logo

The author of the logo we have chosen for the Holocaust Documentation Centre in Moravia is Vít Rýznar [...]

Meetings of the Board of Directors

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

We are preparing a conference of experts

The immediate task of the Foundation is to organize a large international conference. In the spring of 2021, experts on the Holocaust and the historical presence of Jews in Moravia should gather in Brno and open a debate on what exactly the museum should look like. We will also invite the directors of Jewish museums in Jerusalem, Berlin, Warsaw, Washington and Amsterdam to tell us how the [...]

Brno city councillors approved the Memorandum of Cooperation on the project

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

Stories of Jews to be preserved in Brno's new museum, to be the most modern in the Czech Republic

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 present the fate of Moravian Jews in an interactive way through stories, music and films. "We want to thoroughly map the entire history of the Jewish communities in Moravia and offer it in a way that will also interest the younger generation. I have visited Jewish museums [...]

Czech Radio report on the Holocaust Documentation Centre in Moravia

The fate of the Jews in Moravia could be mapped by a new modern museum in Brno. Martin Reiner, a Brno writer, publisher and opposition politician from the Žít Brno movement, is seeking to establish such a museum. The city has already tentatively promised him a plot of land where the Holocaust Documentation Centre in Moravia could stand. Read the full article at irozhlas.cz

Denik.cz: As the second Villa Tugendhat. The past of the Jews and the Holocaust will be mapped in a centre with a café

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. The intention has been supported by the Brno city councillors, but it must be approved by the councillors who will meet next week. The agreement will be confirmed by signing a memorandum. This will ensure, among other things, that the city will provide the Foundation for the construction and operation of the Holocaust Documentation Centre in Moravia [...]

Endowment Fund established

We had a press conference scheduled for March 30 at the Slavia Hotel, with all five members of the Foundation's Board of Directors in attendance. Jakub Kynčl was supposed to come and talk about the matter from the architect's point of view, and Vítek Mádr was supposed to take pictures. Here we wanted to introduce the Documentation Centre to the public. Then we had to meet for the first board meeting, which was [...]