“We’re standing on their shoulders”: Jewish Museum honours war-time staff

New plaques at Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery pay tribute to staff at the city’s Jewish Museum who saved countless valuable artefacts during the Holocaust. The memorial helps mark the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the museum, one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the world.

Recently installed plaques at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague’s Josefov list scores of names of staff and associates of the city’s Jewish Museum whose work gathering items owned by Jewish families and communities during the Holocaust led to the institution having one of the largest collections of Judaica anywhere in the world.

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Author: Ian Willoughby