Month: January 2021
The Documentation Centre has a logo
Posted onThe fist board meeting
Posted onPreparing for an experts conference
Posted onThe Endowment Fund’s next task is to organize a major international conference. In the spring of 2021, experts on the Holocaust and the historyof Jews in Moravia should gather in Brno and open a debate on the museum’s exact shape and form. We are also planning to invite the directors of Jewish museums in Jerusalem, […]
Brno City Assembly have approved a Memorandum of Cooperation
Posted onOn May 12th 2020, the first and one of the most important phases of the MHDC project was completed. Fifteen months after Martin Reiner, a Brno writer and Michal Konečný, a historian, had talked about the “Holocaust documentation centre” in Brno’s beer bar Na stojáka for the first time, the Brno City assembly have unanimously […]
Jewish community of Brno supports documentation centre project
Posted onAs it has been said multiple times (and will be often repeated), the project of the Moravian Holocaust Documentation Centre can only be successful as a subject of the widest possible consensus of both politicians and the professional and otherwise interested public. Naturally we have been in contact with the Jewish community of Brno (JCB), […]
The Endowment Fund established
Posted onWe had a press conference scheduled for March 30th 2020 at the Slavia Hotel, with all five members of the Endowment Fund Board taking part. Jakub Kynčl was supposed to talk things out from the architect’s point of view, Vitek Mádr was to take pictures of it all. This was where we wanted to introduce […]