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type: Institution
buildings: The **Jewish Museum in Prague** and its **Shoah Documentation Department** are located at: U Staré školy 1 110 00 Prague 1 The Jewish Museum's **Archives**, however, are located in the Smíchov Synagogue Building at: Stroupežnického 32 150 00 Prague 5
finding aids: Researchers can find lists of collections and archival aids to the Museum's Archives at the following web address: https://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/collection-research/collections-funds/archives-collections/ The archive of the Shoah Documentation Department is fully digitised and, following a detailed inspection, will be made available online. Currently, mainly an extensive [collection of documents about Jews in Ostrava](http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Collections/Hierarchy/Show/collection_id/77) and a prevailing part of the [Terezín (Theresienstadt) collection](http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Collections/Hierarchy/Show/collection_id/5) are published online. Archival records throughout the Czech Republic are also searchable in a nationwide database: http://aplikace.mvcr.cz/archivni-fondy-cr/default.aspx?lang=en
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sources: Mémorial de la Shoah
sources: Yad Vashem
sources: ClaimsCon'06
sources: www.jewishmuseum.cz
opening hours: **Museum** Winter time 1 January–29 March 9 am–4.30 pm Summer time 31 March–25 October 9 am–6 pm Winter time 27 October–31 December 9 am–4.30 pm The Museum is open every day except Saturdays and Jewish holidays. The **Shoah Documentation Centre** is open on Monday and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The **Archives'** reading room is open on Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
agent has or had location: 1
general description: The Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague currently contain more than 600 linear metres of archival records. The main portion comprises the archives of the individual Jewish religious communities of Bohemia and Moravia. Also kept here are the holdings of certain Jewish associations and organizations, as well as personal papers. The archives also includes a small collection of patents, circulars, ordinances and decrees, a collection of seals and stamps, a collection of sheet music and a collection of miscellaneous items. The archives also contain documents relating to individual Jewish communities, which contain photographs of synagogues, ghettoes and cemeteries, reports on surveys into these sites and references to literature and other sources on the history of Jewish settlement in specific areas. The oldest document dates from 1454 (the Charter of Ladislaus the Posthumous). Archival materials that have been preserved in a systematic way, however, date from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. The archives of individual Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia provide a valuable source for the history of the Jews in the Bohemian lands. The most important part of the archives is the Prague Jewish Religious Community collection. Among the most interesting items in the collection of personal papers are the T. Jakobovits, H. Flesch, S. H. Lieben and E. Kolben papers. *Archive of the Shoah Documentation Department* The Shoah Documentation Department collects and makes available various materials on the history of the"final solution of the Jewish questio" in Bohemia and Moravia. This section is responsible for the administration of the Terezín Archive Collection, which contains official documents associated with the activities of the Jewish Council of Elders and their offices in the Terezín ghetto, the estates of Terezín prisoners (literary works, music scores, theatre plays, diaries, albums, magazines) and personal narratives of Holocaust survivors. The second archive …
has or had agent name: Jewish Museum in Prague
history: Established in 1906, the Jewish Museum in Prague is one of the oldest Jewish museums in Europe. Its founders were the historian Salomon Hugo Lieben and the representative of the Czech-Jewish movement and city councillor August Stein. At the core of its collection were items from synagogues that had been demolished as a result of the clearance of the Prague Jewish ghetto at the beginning of the 20th century. The Jewish Museum Association was abolished in the autumn of 1939 following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Its collection was taken over by the Prague Jewish community which, on the basis of an initiative from Karel Stein (head of the department for rural affairs), prompted the founding of the Central Jewish Museum in 1942. The Nazis approved of the project after lengthy negotiations, although they had completely different aims than the founders. Under the cover name 'museum', the Central Jewish Museum became a safe haven for liturgical objects, books and archival documents from the defunct Jewish communities for the duration of the war. Thanks to the efforts of the art historian and chief curator Josef Polák and his colleagues, this institution operated on a completely professional level, creating the basis for the work of the present-day museum. After the war, the museum was placed under national administration. The conditions laid down by the state meant that the Council of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia – as the legal successor to the disbanded Jewish communities – was unable to take effective control of the museum before the Communist coup of February 1948. In 1950 the museum was nationalized, including its extensive collections. Its subsequent work was affected by ideological pressure, which considerably restricted the range of permissible topics and the way they could be dealt with. In addition, the Communist state made it impossible for the museum to de…
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