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KS&DS Cultural and Education Committee Czech Scroll Group

Schnapps to Simchat Torah . The Development and Destruction of the Jewish Community of Moravsk á Ostrava. KS&DS Cultural and Education Committee Czech Scroll Group. Another Synagogue Fire (June 1939)

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KS&DS Cultural and Education Committee Czech Scroll Group

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  1. Schnapps to Simchat Torah.The Development and Destruction of the Jewish Community of Moravská Ostrava KS&DS Cultural and Education Committee Czech Scroll Group

  2. Another Synagogue Fire (June 1939) At 1:00 a.m. a fire seen in Zerotingasse Synagogue. 3 engines and 24 firemen arrived. With great effort they prevented the fire spreading to the neighbouring buildings. Fire finally extinguished at 9:00 a.m. “Only the selfless efforts of the firemen prevented a much greater misfortune”

  3. Sorting textiles sent to Prague

  4. Chandeliers, stored in Prague

  5. Scrolls stored in Michle Synagogue

  6. Certificate of Scroll 129

  7. Scroll 129

  8. Scroll 129

  9. Scroll 129 – Accession record in the Jewish Museum, Prague.

  10. Ostrava

  11. Heinrich Mine 1913

  12. Heinz Vogel and his mother, near their house, 1936

  13. Ostrava 1911

  14. Jewish Cemetery ca 1935

  15. Programme for the Inauguration of the Main Synagogue, 15 September 1879

  16. Newspaper report of the Official Inauguration of the Main Synagogue, Moravska Ostrava 18 September 1879

  17. Main Synagogue

  18. Main Synagogue Interior

  19. Vitkovice Synagogue

  20. Privoz Synagogue

  21. Hruschau Synagogue

  22. Zerotingasse Synagogue

  23. Zabreh Synagogue

  24. Register of Births for 1880 from the Main Synagogue, Moravska Ostrava.

  25. 1901 1908 1915 1938 1942

  26. Velka Ulice. Street with many Jewish businesses.

  27. Market Place ca 1935

  28. Rix Department Store

  29. Jewish Lawyers, banned from practising

  30. Bob Kingsley (4th from left, front row) and Hanus Weber (4th from left, back row) in Ostrava shortly before they left on a Kindertransport. They never saw their parents again.

  31. In Memory of the Czech Transport to the Gas-Chambers, 1945 Yehuda Bacon (b. 1929, Ostrava) Charcoal on paper 32.4x41.5 cm. Loan of Yehuda Bacon Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem

  32. Bertie Goldberg and some of his family, reading from the Torah in the new synagogue, Ostrava, 2006

  33. Further research into the history of Ostrava and its Jewish Community will be funded by grants from:

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