(October 29, 1892 Prague – October 7, 1943 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp) “Clean, genuine, honest, consistent. Humility and pride, perceptiveness and detachment, devotion and independence, shyness and courage in an unswerving balance,” Franz Kafka. The year 2024 marks the centenary anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka (1883–1924), we cannot help but remember the youngest of […]
Historical articles
Jindřich Karpíšek
Jindřich Karpíšek was born in Jičín on May 31, 1905. He attended primary and junior secondary school in the town, after which he graduated from the teacher training institute. In 1925, he began his military service in Turnov and graduated from the school for reserve officers in Josefov. He subsequently had teaching jobs in a […]
Louise Hermanová – Educator from the Terezín Ghetto
Louise Hermanová, born Louise Freund on May 8, 1916, came from a Jewish family in Svitavy. Louise’s father was a shopkeeper. When she was only two years old, her mother died of the Spanish flu. Louise and her brother Arnošt, who was five years older, were then in the care of a Jewish governess for […]
The Princess with a Golden Star
The story of Dita Krausová. Dita Krausová, originally named Edith Polachová, was born on July 12, 1929 into a Prague Jewish family. Her mother Elisabeth was a homemaker, father Hanuš was employed as a lawyer at the Social Security Institute, where he represented the interests of workers. Both parents enjoyed attending the opera, playing the […]
