Unique archive documents thousands of Jews connected to Ostrava

Photo: City of Ostrava

For nearly 25 years, Libuše Salomonovičová has been piecing together the stories of Jewish families connected to Ostrava in the northeastern Czech region of Moravia-Silesia. Now the 89-year-old researcher has donated her life’s work, a unique archive containing records on some 33,000 people, to Ostrava’s City Archive.

Although not Jewish herself, Libuše Salomonovičová married into a Jewish family.

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Author: Ruth Fraňková