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What will the museum be called

One of the men who came to the conference, and with whom we are now working, is Petr Brod, a journalist known from Free Europe and BBC broadcasts.
And it was he who suggested the name of our museum, which we liked and started to use: Mehrin (מעהרין). [...]

Looking back at the conference

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

Thanks to the conference partners

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

Pink & Loom on the Moon

Martin Reiner, the director of the Foundation, met in Prague with Karel Poupět and Radovan Síbrt, who (together with Alžbětová Karásková) form the Pink production group, and who have made a number of excellent audiovisual exhibitions in their twelve years of existence. The latest of these is one of the largest multimedia installations in the world (110 metres of continuous projection) Moments of History at the National [...]

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. [...]