An exhibition detailing the fate of artefacts bought, collected and loved by Czech Jews who were sent to their deaths by the Nazis during the Second World War opened in the Nostic Palace in central Prague on Tuesday.
The exhibition was prepared by the Centre for the Documentation of Property Transfers of Cultural Artefacts of World War Two Victims. The organisation is responsible for the search for property of its former Jewish owners in Czech state collections.
There is still some work to be done even more than a quarter-century after the end of the Communist regime in 1989, Helena Krejcova, the director of the centre, told CTK on Tuesday.
“The Holocaust was not only the biggest mass murder in history, but also the biggest mass robbery,” Tomas Kraus, the secretary of the Czech Federation of Jewish Communities, the country’s EJC affiliate, said at the opening.
