Foundation for Holocaust Victims
Mission Statement
We care. We help the elderly Holocaust survivors in their old age.
We remember. We support educational and pious commemorative events remembering the Holocaust victims.
We think ahead. We are helping to preserve the traditions – we support the education on Judaism and development of Jewish communities.
We restore. We participate in restoration of Jewish monuments destroyed by Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes.
We compensated. We helped to rectify and mitigate the property injustices caused during the WWII.
News
Café of three generations in Lauder Jewish Day School in Prague
On 19th April we held the second "Café of Three Generations" - this time on the premises of Lauder Jewish Day School in Prague. During the event students, teachers and other visitors had a unique chance to reflect the effect of Shoa on the 3 generations after the WWII. Our special thanks go to the moderator of the evening - the journalist Irena Kalhousova and the panelists - the harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, the psychiatrist and father of two Lauder school pupils Marek Preiss and the president of Czech Union of Jewish Students and a Lauder school graduate David Kosák. We are looking forward to seeing you at the next Café that will take place on 18th May 2012 in the JCC in Brno.
Public reading of Holocaust victim names during Yom ha-Shoah
FHV together with Terezin Iniciative Institute organised a traditional reading of names of Czech Holocaust victims on the eve of Yom ha-shoa on 18th April 2012. During the event, dozens of people - survivors, members of 2nd and 3rd generation, high-school students from schools in Prague 2 together with other Czech citizens - read the names of people who perished during WWII. The event was attended also by the U.S. ambassador Norman L. Eisen, the mayor of Prague Bohuslav Svoboda and the vice-president of the International Auschwitz Committee Felix Kolmer. To view pictures from the event click
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FHV received an endowment from Prague Jewish Community Fund
The FHV received an endowment of 15,000 CZK from Prague Jewish community Fund. The money will be used to finance our seminars for employees of Czech JCCs and partner organizations. We have been organizing these seminars for the past 4 years. They have been very well received by the target group and the visitors of the seminars always express their appreciation of the academic level of the lecturers and the relevance of the presented information for their work.
We wish to thank Prague Jewish Community Fund for their support of our work.
New InfoBulletin now available from our web site
The first FHV InfoBulletin of this year can be downloaded from the link bellow. The InfoBulletin is published quarterly and it always includes information about our work and events we hold. It also informs about the conditions for calls for our grants and it brings reports about the projects that are being supported from the FHV grants. The InfoBulletin is available in Czech only.
Files to download:
Infobulletin NFOH 1-2012.pdf (format PDF, size 2 MB)
The 6th seminar for the employees of the Czech JCCs and partner organisations
The 6th seminar for the employees of the Czech JCCs and partner organisations took place on 21st February 2012. The aim of this series of seminars we organise together with the Fedeartion of Jewish Communities is to educate the people working in the Jewish environment in various topics of Judaism in order for them to understand their working space in a better way.
The topic of the semaniar was the history of Czech Jews from 1945 until today. The lecturers included Blanka Soukupova, Martin Smok and Jiri Danicek. The visitors of the seminar mentioned in the feedback of the seminar that they highly valued the proffessional approach of all the lecturers and especially the chance to see videos of controversial personal memories of Czech Jews presented by Martin Smok, who works for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
