Annual Report

20 13 Contents

1. Forewords of the Chairman of the Board of Directors...... 4 2. Mission Statement and Activities...... 6 3. Grant Programmes...... 8 4. Care Programme ...... 9 5. Remembrance Programme...... 13 6. Renovation Programme ...... 18 7. Future and Our Future Programmes...... 21 8. Projects of Our Own...... 28 9. Financial Report...... 31 10. Auditor’s Statement...... 35 11. The Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board...... 37 12. The Staff ...... 42 13. Our Donors...... 44 14. Basic Data...... 47

3 Forewords of the Chairman of the Board of Directors

Hardly anyone notices it. In the Foundation for is not a grant distribution body and therefore Holocaust Victims, we do have one piece of it decided to ask the FHV to administrate the 1. that kind. Let me tell you about it. programme. The whole amount has been The Foundation has been distributing mon- distributed in accord with all the appropriate etary means in its four grant programmes for rules. We are now looking for ways to continue over ten years. The programmes are called, quite this important programme. Within its scope, ear friends, understandably, Care, Remembrance, Renovation we supported the local Jewish day-camp that Dfor the past couple of years, this page of our and Future. These names represent the purpose enabled children to spend their summer work- annual report has been dedicated to a short of the programmes very well and we have never ing on Jewish oriented activities with their contemplation about the past year in the life felt the need to change them in any way. friends, a possibility I myself unfortunately did of the Foundation for Holocaust Victims and in Recently, we have added a new one called not have as a child. A Three-generation Centre our society as a whole. Today’s world is closely Our Future. In 2012, the Jewish Community in – a quality project located in the Hagibor Old intertwined with the media – news that has not Prague gave the FHV an exceptional donation Age Home – has been operated for several years been published is doomed to pass by unnoticed. of half a million Czech Crowns for the support now. The facility houses a daily child-nursery Every moment seems to bring a piece of news of Jewish community development in the and the Centre enables the clients of the old- that deserves the tag “breaking” or “top”. In Czech Republic. These are monetary means age home to meet not only its children, but a year or two, however, hardly anyone would the community received as a donation from also their parents. Other supported projects remember. There exists another kind of news, one of its members, who wished to support contribute to the development of the community though. It does not attract that much attention. young Jewish families. The community itself life across the country.

4 Some might ask why should the FHV, whose name includes the words “Holocaust Victims”, deal with the support of young Jewish families. The answer is blunt. If it was not for the Holo- caust, there would not need to be a foundation for its victims. Young families would not need our support, because their lives would not be affected by Holocaust either. My personal wish and the only natural development would be, if the main source of funding for this programme came from donors that have the possibility and feel the need to support our future. Therefore, I wish to ask you to be the ones to support this programme.

Thank you.

Michal Borges

5 Mission Statement and Activities

Foundation for the Holocaust Victims. At the 100 million CZK among those, whose property in end of 2013, we work with 69.032 million CZK. today’s Czech Republic was confiscated during WWII We fundraise intensively in order to ensure the on the bases of racial laws and who were unable to 2. continuation of the support of our projects. retrieve it or receive compensation through current In 2001–2005 we administrated the Pro- restitution laws or international agreements. This We mitigate the injustices gramme Compensation, in which we distributed programme is no longer in operation. of the past, we support We have been supporting projects in 4 programmes since 2002: the future Care Programme Renovation Programme social, medical and psychological care reconstruction and maintenance he Foundation for Holocaust Victims was for Holocaust victims and members of of Jewish sites around the Czech Testablished on 31st July 2000, on the basis the 2nd generation that find Republi c of the recommendations of the Joint Working themselves in a needy situation Committee Focusing on Mitigating Some Future Programme Property Injustices to Holocaust Victims. Remembrance Jewish education and the develop- Based on this resolution, on 15th September Programme ment of Jewish communities 2000, the Chamber of Deputies and the Czech educational and Holocaust Parliament made a decision to transfer funds, remembrance projects amounting to 300 million CZK, over to the

6 We organise our own projects, remem- brance events and educational seminars.

We inform about our activities at www.fondholocaust.cz, through our Face­ book site and in our quarterly InfoBulletin.

We are a member of the Association of Foun- dations of Donors Forum (www.donorsforum. cz/asociace-nadacnich-fondu) and International Auschwitz Commitee (www.auschwitz.info).

Would you like to participate at our programmes?

Become our donor and send a donation to our public collection at 502-2685554004/2700 in UniCredit Bank.

Become our volunteer Do not hesitate to get in touch with us.

7 Grant Programmes

Where and when can the grant proposal brance Programmes is 50,000 CZK. Except for be realised? educational programmes led by Shoa survivors The call for proposals is announced once a year, usually in July, and the deadline for What is the application procedure and the projects is in September. The projects are process of approving the applications? realised during the following year. We support The applications shall be supplied on relevant 3. only projects that are realised in the Czech forms, which are available on the FHV website. Republic. In 2013, the deadline for grant ap- The applications are evaluated by the respec- plications was the 18th September. tive grant committee nominated by the FHV very year we distribute grant money on the Board of Directors. The Foundation benefits Ebasis of public grant call. What are the financial conditions of the are granted on the basis of the FHV Board of grants? Directors recommendation. Terms for distribution of FHV Our priority is to support projects with mul- There is no legal claim to obtain the foun- grants tiple sources of financing and a minimal share dation’s benefit. The results of grant call is of their own or other resources to the amount published on the FHV website and all applicants Who can apply for a FHV grant? of 10%, in the case of allowance organisations are informed in writing. We sign a conctract with FHV supports projects prepared especially the minimum share is 50%, and in the case of all successful applicants and we check the usage by organisations under the umbrella of the legal entities for the purpose of business, the of the monetary means during the realisation Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech minimum share is 80%. of the project. In case of violation of contractual Republic, NGOs, public beneficial organisations, In Care and Renovation Programmes, there conditions, we demand the return of the grant institutions established by the church, public is no limit to the maximum requested amount. money. The supported organisations present the service institutions, and allowance organisa- The maximum amount of endowment benefit FHV with continuous and final reports on the tions registered within the Czech Republic. for the projects within the Future and Remem- projects, as well as the reports on the budget.

8 Care Programme

he care for Holocaust victims is the Tpriority of our work. We help to increase the quality of their life and to ensure the best possible care for them. We support organisations that provide professional social, health 4. and psychological care for Shoa survivors. We support home care, personal assistance, psychological help, residential care, day-care centres of Jewish communities, social care fieldwork, social counselling, health care, ergotherapy, psychotherapy, physiotherapy, rehabilita- tion, medical care, staff on call to the clients, and activity programmes. Recently, we have started to aim our care also at representatives of the second generation of Holocaust survivors who find themselves in a situation of need. We cooperate closely with Dita Snajdrova, the coordinator of the Claims Conference projects in the Czech Republic.

9 Realized grants in 2013

In 2013, we supported 17 projects. In case of two projects, we received back a part of the unused monetary means from the previous grant call. We distributed the total of 4,273,656 CZK in the grant endowments. Out of these 584,166 CZK was covered by the grant from the German Foundation Erin- nerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft from the donation of Deutsche Bahn directed at help to the victims of Nazi regime in Central and Eastern Europe.

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Association for Administering Collection “Traumatized Groups-Healing-Identity” 20,000 Prix Irene Betanie – Christian Aid Residential Care for Holocaust Survivors 400,000 Brno Jewish Community JAS Agency – Dignified Old Age for the Holocaust Survivors 650,000 Brno Jewish Community JAS Agency – Dignified Old Age for the Holocaust Survivors –33,102 Decin Jewish Community Social Care for Decin Jewish Community Members 120,000 Hradec Kralove Regional Charity Dignified Old Age 2013 25,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Social Care for Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Members 120,000 Liberec Jewish Community Social Care Fieldwork for the Needy Clients 2013 120,000 Living Memory “Ghettorente” Counseling 25,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Social Centre for Olomouc Jewish Community Holocaust Survivors and Second Generation 110,000 Ostrava Jewish Community “Tikvah” Home Care Agency – Social Services Provider 600,000 Ostrava Jewish Community “Tikvah” Home Care Agency – Social Services Provider –218,242 Plzen Jewish Community Social Counceling 67,000 Prague Jewish Community Complex Home Care Ezra – Social and Health Care with Special Attention to the Needs of Holocaust Survivors 313,000 Prague Jewish Community Hagibor Old Age Home 1,000,000 Prague Jewish Community Social Services for Holocaust Survivors 600,000 Rafael Institute Support of the Therapeutic Centre – Families after the Holocaust 200,000 Teplice Jewish Community Home is Home 130,000 Terezin Initiative Help for the 2nd Generation 25,000 Total 4,273,656

10 Grants awarded for support in 2014

In fall 2013 the board of directors decided to support 17 projects that shall be realized in 2014. These projects shall be awarded with the total sum of 4.5 million CZK.

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Association for Administering Translation and Publishing of G. Bloch’s Book 20,000 Prix Irene Betanie – Christian Aid Residential Care for Holocaust Survivors 300,000 Brno Jewish Community JAS Agency – Dignified Old Age for the Holocaust Survivors 700,000 Decin Jewish Community Social Care for Decin Jewish Community Members 120,000 Hospic Civic Association Cesta Hospic Care for a Jewish Client 20,000 domu Hradec Kralove Regional Charity Dignified Old Age 2014 25,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Social Care for Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Members 120,000 Liberec Jewish Community Social Care Fieldwork for the Needy Clients 2014 120,000 Living Memory “Ghettorente” Counseling 25,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Social Centre for Olomouc Jewish Community Holocaust Survivors and Second Generation – Part II 110,000 Ostrava Jewish Community “Tikvah” Home Care Agency – Social Services Provider 570,000 Plzen Jewish Community Social Counceling 70,000 Prague Jewish Community Complex Home Care Ezra – Social and Health Care with Special Attention to the Needs of Holocaust Survivors 450,000 Prague Jewish Community Hagibor Old Age Home 1,100,000 Prague Jewish Community Social Services for Holocaust Survivors 450,000 Rafael Institute Support of the Therapeutic Centre – Families after the Holocaust 180,000 Teplice Jewish Community Professional Advisory Services for Elderly Clients 120,000 Total 4,500,000

11 Social, medical and psychological care for Nazi victims / victims of the Holocaust in the Czech Republic

In 2013 we carried out the second half of a two-year project, for which we have received a grant of 100,000 EUR from the German Foundation Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft from the donation of Deutsche Bahn directed at help to the victims of Nazi regime in Central and Eastern Europe. We used 584,166 CZK for direct help to Nazi victims through co- financing the salaries of social workers in five Jewish communities. In addition, we supported rehabilitation, asistence and psychological care for survivors and their families. The care and counceling were altered according to actual needs of clients. We financed care for 143 clients. We used 420,046 CZK to finance drugs, food supplements, medical aids and health and preventive care for 340 victims of Holocaust. 100,231 CZK were used for administration and coordination of the project.

12 Remembrance Programme

e support projects that help to remember vious grant call. We distributed the total of Wthe Jewish and Roma Holocaust victims in 858,391 CZK in the grant endowments. a dignified way. Primarily, we support educational We financed 9 educational projects. The supported activities targeted at young people. We support projects included also Living Memory’s “Lost Roma especially those that are organized under pro- and Roma Today”, which enabled pupils and students fessional auspices and that involve Holocaust to meet and talk to Emilie Machalkova, a survivor survivors. Also, we finance remembrance events, of Roma Holocaust. Thanks to our support, 9 books 5. memorial plaques and memorials, exhibitions, were published. One of these was the book “Years lectures, workshops, research work and publica- of grief and sorrow”, which features the memories tions of books and other publications. of Kolin Jews from 1938–1945. We also supported Filming in Terezin 1942–1945”. We also supported In 2013, we supported 29 projects. In case 7 commemoration events, 3 exhibitions and 2 the further development of the educational web of two projects, we received back a part of research projects. We took part at the successfull holocaust.cz, which was supplemented with the unused monetary means from the pre- Prague Jewish Museum exhibition “Truth and Lie. documents from regional archives.

Realized grants in 2013

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Association of Consultants of Left-Behind Doll – Remembering Holocaust in Kutna Hora Region 15,000 Organisations Development Association of Released Political Travelling Exhibition “Sights of Suffering, Death and Heroism” 23,000 Prisoners Bashevi Yellow Crocuses 30,000

13 Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Committee for the Redress Remembrance Event at the Site of the Former Roma Concentration Camp in Lety u Pisku 2013 15,000 of Roma Holocaust Diagnostic Institute Dobrichovice Holocaust Remembrance Programme for Children from the Diagnostic Institute –10 Ebenezer – Help Fund Road to Terezin… 25,000 Fiducia Publication Ostrava Behind Barbed Wire 10,000 Franz Kafka Centre – Franz Kafka Lives of Eva L. – Publishing of the Book 35,000 Publishing House Galerie Efram Sympozium Efram 2013 25,000 Hustopece Town Memorial at Jewish Cemetery in Hustopece 30,000 IQ Roma servis Through My Eyes 16,901 Jewish Museum in Prague Truth and Lie. Filming in Terezin 1942–1945 50,000 Kolin Library Book “Years of Sorrow and Pain” 40,000 Kosova Hora Synagogue Memorial to Holocaust Victims 5,000 Lisen Play about the Holocaust 10,000 Living Memory Lost Roma and Roma Today 20,000 Museum of North Bohemia in Crystal Night – Publication of the Book 35,000 Liberec National Institute of Children and Youth of the Czech Ministry of Preparation of Text Collection of the 10th Literary and Historical Contest Daniel (Holocaust and Race Issues) 15,000 Education OIKOYMENH Fackenheim, God‘s Presence in History 24,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Digital Database of Jewish Citizens of Olomouc 20,000 Plzen Jewish Community 2013 – Remembering January Transports 20,000 Prague Jewish Community Memorial Plague for Holocaust Survivors in Novy Bydzov 10,000 History of the Jewish Community in Sumperk – Collecting Data about the Jewish Community and Respect and Tolerance 12,500 the Jewish Cemetery in Sumperk Romano Dzaniben Teaching Roma History 2013 13,500 Sokolov Museum “Paintor David Friedmann – Witness of the Holocaust” 12,500 Stolpersteine CZ Stolpersteine / Stones of the Vanished 2013 40,000

14 Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) TENDER pro It Is About All of Us 11,000 Teplice Jewish Community Holocaust Survivors 15,000 Terezin Initiative Fight against Anti-Semitism in Czech Schools 200,000 Terezin Initiative Institute Terezin Album in Regions 49,000 “Prirodni skola” High School Travelling Exhibition “Message from the Terezin Children” 31,000 Total 858,391

15 Grants awarded for support in 2014

In the grant call in fall 2013, we chose 38 projects, which shall be supported with the total sum amounting 700,000 CZK.

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Association of Consultants of Exhibition on the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of Frantisek Zelenka’s Passing 10,000 Organisations Development Association of Frantisek and Jiri Forgotten Jiri Mordechaj Langer 15,000 Langer Association of Jewish Academics Overlooked Areas in Holocaust Research 15,000 Association of Jewish Soldiers and Jews in War and Resistance – Movie and Exhibition 10,000 Resistance Fighters in Prague Association of Released Political Travelling Exhibition “Sights of Suffering, Death and Heroism” 30,000 Prisoners Brno Jewish Community Holocaust Memorial in Brno 9,000 Charles University in Prague Relations between Jews and Non-Jews in the 20th Century 15,000 Continuum Vitae Holocaust in Tisnov 1941–1945 14,000 Czechoslovak Hussite Church in I Shall Remember Your Name 5,000 Kladno In IUSTITIA Be Active in Fight Against Anti-Semitism 10,000 Jewish Museum in Prague Jewish Memory in the 20th Century 20,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Memories of Karlovy Vary Survivors 15,000 KreBul Multicultural Education in Practice 10,000 Lost Roma and Roma Today – Roma Holocaust, Its Traces in the After-War Czechoslovakia Living Memory 15,000 and the Life of Roma in the Czech Republic Museum of North Bohemia in “Behind Barbed Wire“ (Book) 15,000 Liberec Museum of Romani Culture Ceija Stojka – Interactive Programme for Schools 15,000 Nicholas Winton Association A Chain of Good Deeds 15,000 OLDstars Art Group Trial 10,000

16 Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Olomouc Jewish Community Digital Database of Jewish Citizens of Olomouc 15,000 OpenEye This Is Where It Happened, Have a Look 15,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Shoa Legacy for the Young Generation 10,000 P3K Publishing House Water Colours, Lidia Ostałowska 15,000 Plzen Jewish Community 2014 – Remembering January Transports 15,000 Post Bellum Jewish Memories in Memory of Nation’s Mobile Application 15,000 Concert at the Occasion of the International Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust and Prague Jewish Community 10,000 Prevention of Crimes against Humanity “Prirodni skola” High School Publishing Petr Ginz monography 15,000 R. P. Music Tylda – A Book and Lectures about a Holocaust Victim 15,000 Revolver Revue Special Treatment 25,000 Romano Dzaniben Teaching Roma History 2014 15,000 Sokolov Museum Eva Erbenova – Memories of Striped Shirt 5,000 Stolpersteine CZ Stolpersteine / Stones of the Vanished 2014 30,000 Teplice Jewish Community Educating about Judaism – Multicultural World 7,000 Terezin Initiative Fight against Anti-Semitism in Czech Schools 175,000 Terezin Initiative Institute Online Holocaust Textbook 25,000 Theatr Ludem A Little Lion from the Ghetto – Educational Workshop 10,000 Traces of Memory Traces of Memory 10,000 University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech-German Youth 8th Czech – German Youth Meetings 10,000 Exchange Coordination Centre “Tandem” in Pilsen Zamrsk Regional Archive Under the Star of David 15,000 Total 700,000

17 Renovation Programme

e support the reconstruction, renovation the lack of financial means for the huge num- Wand preservation of Jewish monuments ber of tombstones that need renovation, we around the Czech Republic. The goal of our also support documentation of tombstones. support is to return the monument to its original state, capturing the maximum of In 2013, we awarded grants to 20 projects 6. the architectural and artistic features. We with the total sum amounting to 7,000,000 CZK. prefer projects that allow the sights to serve For several years in a row, we have been to its original purpose, alternatively allowing supporting a long term project of the Federa- new types of usage (such as cultural events, tion of Jewish Communities, which includes exhibitions etc.). We welcome also pro- care for more than 100 Jewish Sights around jects of cemetery maintenance in the Czech Republic. The most important work which the wider public takes has been done at the cemeteries in Budyne an active part. nad Ohri, Radoun, Telice, Svihov and Becov We finance especially nad Teplou. The 3rd part of the Hrivcice Jewish reconstructions of cemetery maintanance, administered by Peruc synagogues, houses Hussite Community, was finished. We supported of rabbis, Jewish Teplice Jewish Community’s workcamp in the cemeteries – es- cemetery of Sobedruhy and the workcamp of pecially renova- the Union of Czech Jewish Youth in the cemetery tions of unique in Pisecne. The historian Iva Steinova and the tombstones. Hebrew scholar Daniel Polakovic documented Because of the Jewish cemetery in Nova Cerekev.

18 Realized grants in 2013

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Brno Jewish Community Reconstruction of Jewish Cemetery in Brno in 2013 300,000 Czech Union of Jewish Youth Czech Union of Jewish Students Takes Care of Jewish Cemeteries 25,000 Czechoslovak Hussite Church – Jewish Cemetery in Hrivcice – 3rd part 80,000 Peruc Community Decin Jewish Community Repair of Windows of the Synagogue Hall 98,000 Federation of Jewish Communities Long-term Project of Gradual Reconstruction, Renovation and Maintenance of Jewish Monuments Possesed 5,289,000 in the Czech Republic by the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic Hustopece Town Repair of the Jewish Cemetery Wall 100,000 Jewish Museum in Prague Reconstruction of Tombstones Close to the Klausen Synagogue 65,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Reconstruction and Repair of the Tombstones in the Jewish Cemetery 80,000 Liberec Jewish Community Documentation and Repairs of the Jewish Cemetery 80,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Maintanance of the Jewish Cemetery in Olomouc 50,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Reconstruction of the Neumann Tombstone in Frydek-Mistek – Continuation of the Project 20,000 Plzen Jewish Community Repair of the Jewish Cemetery Wall – Spalene Porici 150,000 Prague Jewish Community Documentation of the Tombstones in the Jewish Cemetery in Nova Cerekev 40,000 Prague Jewish Community Labeling Abandoned Graves at the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague 200,000 Prague Jewish Community Reconstruction and Conservation of Tombstones in the New Jewish Cemetery in Nachod 108,000 Prague Jewish Community Reconstruction of Jewish Cemetery Tombstones in Humpolec 75,000 Prague Jewish Community Reconstruction of the Caretaker’s House in Beroun 60,000 Teplice Jewish Community Maintenance of Cemeteries and Workshop in Sobedruhy 100,000 Teplice Jewish Community Memorial Plague for Jewish Soldiers 20,000 Teplice Jewish Community Reconstruction of the Doors and Gutters in the Synagogue in Louny 60,000 Total 7,000,000

19 Grants awarded for support in 2014 In 2014, the board of directors decided to support 17 projects with the total sum of 7,300,000 CZK.

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Brno Jewish Community Reconstruction of Skorepka Street Synagogue 400,000 Czech Union of Jewish Youth Union of Czech Jewish Students’ Workshop in Habry 15,000 Czechoslovak Hussite Church – Jewish Cemetery in Hrivcice – 4th part 60,000 Peruc Community Czechoslovak Hussite Church – Reconstruction and Revitalisation of Horice Synagogue – Moisture Protection 20,000 Velky Vrestov Community Federation of Jewish Communities Long-term Project of Gradual Reconstruction, Renovation and Maintenance of Jewish Monuments Possessed 5,855,000 in the Czech Republic by the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic Jewish Museum in Prague Reconstruction of Tombstones Close to the Klausen Synagogue 65,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Reconstruction and Repair of the Tombstones in the Jewish Cemetery 100,000 Lauder Jewish Day School Landscape of Life – Reconstruction of the Jewish Cemetery in Golcuv Jenikov 25,000 Liberec Jewish Community Repair of 5 Family Tombstones 80,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Maintenance of the Jewish Cemetery in Olomouc 50,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Jewish Cemeteries, Cultural Heritage of Ostrava 110,000 Plzen Jewish Community Chevra Kadisha Tablets 80,000 Prague Jewish Community Reconstruction of Jewish Cemetery in Mechnov 50,000 Prague Jewish Community Reconstruction of the Caretaker’s House in Beroun – 2nd part 100,000 Respect and Tolerance Lostice Synagogue – Construction Works – Part V. 200,000 Teplice Jewish Community Maintenance of Teplice and Sobedruhy Cemeteries 50,000 Teplice Jewish Community Transport of Tombstones to Mastov Cemetery 40,000 Total 7,300,000

20 7.

Future Programme

e support projects of Jewish education their second financial instalments. The proj­ featured lectures, film screening, concert and Wand Jewish community development. We ects in this grant programme received the presentation of traditional Jewish cousine. support projects that help maintaining Jewish total of 506,997 CZK. The realized projects We supported 11 educational projects. One tradition, kindergarten and school programmes, included 13 festivals, theatre and other cul- of them was a successful series of lectures lectures, seminars and workshops, magazines tural events that introduced Jewish culture on Israeli culture organized by Ulpan. We and bulletines of Jewish organisations, festivals to wider audience. We also supported the financed 6 projects that contribute to com- of Jewish culture etc. international seminar of Jewish dances called munity activites of Jewish organisations and In 2013, we supported 35 projects. Two Machol Czechia 2013 or the Open house associations. We supported publishing of two projects from the previous grant call received at the Olomouc Jewish Community, which books and two periodicals.

21 Realized grants in 2013

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) 2HP Production CD with Jewish Songs for Children 5,000 Association D Neo-Nacism and Holocaust Denial – Interactive Educational Program for High Schools 15,000 Association for Renewal of the Destroyed Jewish Sights of North Bohemia 1937–1989 20,000 Sights of Ustek Region Association of Jewish Women in Roots & Fruits, Educational Activities CCJW 2013 15,000 Czech Republic – CCJW Bashevi The Way I See Racism – About Tolerance 4,000 Bejt Praha Music of Our Ancestors Played in a New Way 7,500 Bejt Simcha Maskil – Writing Fresh about Jewish Community 15,000 Besamim Machol Czechia 2013 – International Seminar of Jewish Dances 20,000 Brno Jewish Community Jewish Community Brno Library – Study and Information Centre 18,000 Cultural Centre Trebic Shamajim – Festival of Jewish Culture in Trebic 17,500 Czech Union of Jewish Youth Judafair: Fair of Czech Jewish Organisations 20,000 Decin Jewish Community Synagogue as the Source of Information about Judaism 19,000 Faculty of Arts – Charles University, David Gans (1541–1613): History and Present 10,000 Prague Centre of Jewish Studies Federation of Jewish Communities Feigele Theatre – Programme for Children and Synagogues 20,000 in the Czech Republic Hakoach Sport Club Viktorcup a Bit Differently 14,002 In IUSTITIA Against Anti-Semitism through Strenghtening Legal Awareness 9,945 Jewish Liberal Union in the Czech Continuity – Jewish Holidays and Tradition 20,000 Republic Jewish Museum in Prague Judaism Education for Adults and Children 20,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Teaching Jewish Law 11,500 Kosova Hora Synagogue Jewish Culture in Kosova Hora 10,000 Kromeriz Museum Edition Jews and Moravia XIX 10,000

22 Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Liberec Jewish Community Educational and Cultural Events in the Liberec Jewish Community 2013 15,000 Music Theatre Olomouc Days of Jewish Culture Olomouc 2013 15,000 Muzika Judaika Mazif II. (Small Jewish Festival) 10,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Open House in Olomouc Jewish Community 10,550 Olomouc Jewish Community Open House in Olomouc Jewish Community 12,000 Organisation of Christian and Jews Revue of the Organisation of Christian and Jews 15,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Jewish Culture in Ostrava Region 10,000 P3K Publishing House Collection of Poems Pijutim ve-Shirej Jedidut 5,500 Plzen Jewish Community Shana: 5773/4 10,000 Prague Jewish Community Jewish Newspaper Obecni Noviny 15,000 Regional Museum in Mikulov Educational Programmes in Mikulov Synagogue 10,000 Sion – New Generation Days for Israel 10,000 Teplice Jewish Community History, Tradition and Customs of Jews 15,000 Ulpan Series of Lectures about Israeli Culture 15,000 Ulpan Teplice Limud Ulpan Teplice 20,000 Unijazz Boskovice 2013 – Festival for the Jewish Quarter 17,500 Total 506,997

23 Grants awarded for support in 2014

We chose 31 projects for support in 2014. These projects will be financed by the total sum of 500,000 CZK.

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Art Museum Olomouc Days of Jewish Culture Olomouc 2014 20,000 (former Music Theatre Olomouc) Association D Neo-Nacism and Holocaust Denial – Interactive Educational Program for High Schools (continuation) 15,000 Association of Jewish Women in From Roots to Fruits 9,000 Czech Republic – CCJW Bashevi Jews as a Phenomenon – History and Culture 15,000 Bejt Simcha Maskil – Widening Horizons 15,000 Besamim Machol Czechia 2014 – International Seminar of Jewish Dances 20,000 Boskovice Museum Judaism from Every-Day Routine to Immortality 20,000 Chevra Kadisha Czech Republic Creation of Original Textile Wedding Canopy 13,000 Chinuch Hebrew Language in the Jewish Community 15,000 Cultural Centre Trebic Shamajim – Festival of Jewish Culture in Trebic 15,000 Czech Union of Jewish Youth JudaFest 2014 15,000 Decin Jewish Community Synagogue as the Source of Information about Judaism 15,000 Hakoach Sport Club Viktorcup – Strenghtening Jewish Community through Sports 15,000 Jewish Liberal Union in the Continuity – Jewish Holidays and Tradition 20,000 Czech Republic Jewish Museum in Prague Judaism Education for Adults and Children 25,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Shabbat Meetings – Teaching Jewish Law 10,000 Krnov Synagogue Bnei Noach – Torah for Everybody 20,000 Kromeriz Museum Edition Jews and Moravia XX 12,000 Lauder Jewish Day School Teaching Hebrew in Lauder School 25,000 Liberec Jewish Community Educational and Cultural Events in the Olomouc Jewish Community 2014 10,000 Muzika Judaika Mazif III. (Small Jewish Festival) 5,000

24 Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Olomouc Jewish Community Open House in Olomouc Jewish Community 16,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Jewish Learning and Culture in Ostrava Region as a Part of Our Life 10,000 Plzen Jewish Community Shana: 5774/5 15,000 Prague Jewish Community Jewish Newspaper Obecni Noviny 15,000 Regional Museum in Mikulov Events and Exhibitions in Mikulov Synagogue 2014 15,000 Sion – New Generation Days for Israel 5,000 Teplice Jewish Community 600 Years of Jewish Presence in Teplice 15,000 Terezin Initiative Institute There Is Just One Kind of Racism! Preventing Anti-Semitism in Czech Schools 45,000 Ulpan Teplice Limud Ulpan Teplice 20,000 Unijazz Boskovice 2014 – Festival for the Jewish Quarter 15,000 Total 500,000

25 OUR FUTURE SUB-PROGRAMME

The Jewish Community in Prague awarded us with a special donantion with which we established a sub-programme Our Future of the Future Programme. On the basis of the donor’s wish the donation was awarded to projects that introduce activities for young Jewish families. In 2013 we supported 10 projects with the amount of 237,500 CZK. All supported projects aimed at the youngest Jewish community members, their education in Jewish tradition and strenghtening their ties to the Jewish people. More than 200 children benefited from the supported projects.

Realized grants in 2013

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Bejt Simcha Yom Tov – Family Holiday Gatherings 15,000 Brno Jewish Community Shavuot Celebration 10,000 Chinuch Shabbat and Holiday Workshops 30,000 Czech Union of Jewish Youth Mitzvah Day 18,000 Lauder Jewish Day School Celebrating Lag Ba-Omer – Family Celebration 23,500 Olomouc Jewish Community Jewish Traditions for Families with Children 27,000 Prague Jewish Community Community Family Centre Gesher 40,000 Prague Jewish Community Pre-School 17,000 Prague Jewish Community Three-generation Community Centre Hagibor 30,000 Teplice Jewish Community Jewish Holidays 27,000 Total 237,500

26 Grants awarded for support in 2014

For 2014 we chose 8 projects that shall be awarded support amounting 237,500 CZK.

Beneficiary Project name Granted amount (CZK) Bejt Simcha Chaverim – Programmes for Children 30,000 Chinuch We Pass on Tradition 30,000 Czech Union of Jewish Youth Mitzvah Day 15,000 Federation of Jewish Communities Jewish Gathering 2014 42,500 in the Czech Republic Lauder Jewish Day School We Celebrate Together, School Celebration of Holidays 30,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Jewish Traditions for Families with Children 25,000 Prague Jewish Community Gesher Club 40,000 Prague Jewish Community Three-generation Community Centre Hagibor 25,000 Total 237,500

27 Projects of Our Own

ur cooperation with the endowment ben- Oefactors does not end with the awarding Educational seminars of our grants. Quite on the contrary, we are in close touch with our partners, we map Since 2009 we have been organising 2 the needs of the employees of the or 3 seminars a year for employees ofJewish supported organisations and and partner organisations, whose projects we 8. we actively seek ways to support. We try to educate them in Judaism help especially Jew- in order for them to understand the context of ish organisations the environment they work in. The seminars in their work are co-organized with the Federation of Jew- and fields of ish Communities in the Czech Republic. Every expertise. seminar starts with an introductory note of the chief rabbi Karol Efraim Sidon. Two seminars took place in 2013. They were attended by 100 visitors altogether. The theme of the first one was Israel. The lectur- ers of the seminar were Ales Weiss (Modern State of Israel in the Jewish Tradition), Irena Kalhousova (Current Middle East Situation) and Daniel Ziss (Falafel – Religious, Ethnic, Political and Cultural Groups within the Society Living between the Jordan and the Sea). The second seminar dealt with Jewish tombstones and

28 their reading. The seminar featured Foundation and Federation of Jewish Com- Iva Steinova (Jewish Burial Practise, munities and Prague Jewish Community. It Jewish Cemeteries in the Czech was attended by ove 30 teachers, lecturers and Republic and Symbolics of Jewish madrichim. The lecturers of the seminar were Tombstones and Their Reading) Mario Izcovich (JDC), rabbi Joshua Spinner and Daniel Polakovic (Epgraphic (Lauder Foundation) and Nicola Abery (Look of Jewish Tombstones). The to Learn). The seminar was very successful. seminar included a hands on On the basis of a very good feedback from workshop, in which both of the year, we prepared as sequel two-day the lecturers took the semi- seminar for Czech educators in 2014 called nar attendees around the Mechanchim. New Jewish Cemetery in We prepare special seminars for employees Prague. of our partners who work with Jewish clients In 2013, we answered in social, health and psychological care. They the call for a seminar for educate them in the specific field of care Jewish educators that we for clients that survived the Holocaust and heard from our partner or- they inform them about the current topic ganisations. We organized in the field of care. In 2013 we organized a one day seminar for Czech 4 seminars of this kind. Their topics were: Jewish teachers, lecturers Second Generation after Holocaust, Work and madrichim of the Czech with Families, Standards of Social Care and schools, kindergartens and Psychobiographical Model of Prof. E. Böhm. other educational institutions. This seminar was co-organized with Join Distribution Committee, Lauder

29 Remembrance On Yom ha-Shoa (the Jewish Holocaust day) before the concert and we needed to enlarge and cultural events we organize a public reading of the Holocaust the seating of the concert hall. We raised victim names together with the Terezin Initia- 32,780 CZK. tive Institute. In 2013 the event took place Together with the Federation of Jewish on 8th April. 4. The event, which is a public Communities in the Czech Republic we organ- expression of honour to Shoa victims, was ize an annual festive event on the occasion attended by several prominent personalities of the International Holocaust Remembrance of the Czech public life as well as by tens of Day, during which Holocaust survivors and ordinary people. representatives of the Czech Parliament and Once a year we organize a beneficiary Senate meet together. The meeting in 2013 concert. The money we raise is used to took place under the patronage of the head finance the projects we support in our of the Czech Parliament Miroslava Nemcova grant programmes. The concerts are also and the head of the Czech Senate Miroslav an opportunity for us to inform about Stech. This event was coorganised with the our work and to meet informally the Federation of Jewish Communities in the people that work in our supported Czech Republic. The event was attended by projects. In 2013 we returned tens of Holocaust survivors, senators, ambas- with the concert to Baracnicka sadors, the archibishop of Prague, the chief Rychta venue. The concert was rabbi of the Czech Republic and many other moderated by Ester Janeckova. public figures. A speach on behalf of the Shoa The programme featured roma victims was addressed by prof. Tomas Kosta, bands Imperio and Terne Chave. Auschwitz survivor. The beneficiary concert was be- yond successful – the tickets were sold out more than a moth

30 Financial Report

he financial report covers the period of 907 thousands CZK was covered fro external T1st January to 31st December 2013. funds and 11,969 thousands CZK was used from The Foundation received in 2000 from former the funds from the Czech Ministry of Finance). State Property Fund, today Czech Ministry of The Foundation fulfilled the criteria of the Finance (hereinafter, as MF) endowment benefit FHV Statutes, which quote the Czech law No. 300 million CZK. These financial means were 227/1997 Sb. that deal with foundations. It 9. distributed according to the rules of FHV. The states that the administration of the fund must remaining amount was divided into two parts. not exceed 30 % of allocated grant money. The The first part of the financial means is invested in total of administration costs were, according CSOB Asset Management. The second part is man- to the statutes of the FHV, counted after the Ministry of Finance report aged by Conseq Investment Management, a. s. deduction of costs related to handling of stock Thanks to the merger with CCNV on 1st Sep- and costs related to events organised by the The Foundation fulfilled the criteria given in tember 2009, the FHV received stock amounting FHV. The administration costs in 2013 amount the contract with SPF (i.e. today’s MF), which says to 3,046 thousands CZK. This stock was a part of to 3,115 thousands CZK, which are equal to in the Addendum No. 3 that the administration the Ceska Sporitelna portfolio until its due date 24 % of the allocated grant money. of the fund must not exceed 30 % of allocated on 31st December 2011. In November 2012, these In 2013, the FHV “actualised its gain” (i.e. it grant money. The total of administration costs means were transfered to a current account of lowered the difference between the acquisition were, according to the statutes of the FHV, FHV at CMZRB. These monetary means shall price and the market value of the stock) from the counted after the deduction of costs related to be used in the 13th grant call for the respective Conseq portfolio Investment Management, a.s. handling of stock and costs related to events projects we support in 2014. Taking this fact into account, the final result of organized by the FHV, which were funded from Granted endowment benefits in 2013 the financial management of the FHV in 2013 external sources. The administration costs amounted to 12,876 thousands CZK (out of these, amouns to 2,297 thousands CZK. counted in the above described way amount to

31 3,021 thousands CZK in 2013, which are equal Most of the costs for activities organised by nanced from other sources. Costs for FHV activi- to 25% of the allocated grant money that come the FHV in 2013 were co-financed from external ties covered by the Ministry of Finance amount from the means of the Czech Ministry of Finance sources. These costs amount to 291 thousands to 24 thousands CZK. (11,969 thousands CZK for 2013). CZK. 267 thousands out of this sum was cofi- Usage of the MF financial means in thousands of CZK

Year Net SPF gains Administration costs Grant endowments The rest of SPF means 108,308 2011 963 3,087 14,503 91,681 2012 2,214 3,480 11,711 78,704 2013 5,318 3,021 11,969 69,032

Total of all FHV financial resources in thousands of CZK

Initial state of Resources gained Means used for Means used for Means used for FHV Total of means at Financial Source resources during the year administration projects (events) grant endowments the end of the year Grants and donations out- 3,716* 2,142 118 267 1,265** 4,208 side of the public collection Donations received in the 34 98 62 70 public collection Ministry of Finance 78,704 5,318 2,997 24 11,969 69,032 * including the financial means from the merger with CCNV ** includes the subsidies for drugs, medical aids and food suplements

32 Balance as of 31st December 2013 in thousands of CZK

ASSETS LIABILITIES Fixed assets Own capital Individual movables and their collections 51 Own capital 1 Depreciation to individual movables and their collections –51 Funds 71,013 Other financial fixed assets 63,123 Valuation differences from change of value of property and liabilities 873 Total fixed assets 63,123 Outcome of trading in approval 2,297 Total own capital 74,184 Current assets Provided operational assets 60 Not own capital Petty cash fund 11 Contractors 22 Valuables 14 Employees 84 Bank accounts 11,235 Other liabilities to employees 2 Total current assets 11,320 Payables to social and health insurance 46 Other direct taxes 11 Total assets 74,443 Other liabilities 4 Accrued passive accounts 59 Future costs 31 Total not own capital 259

Total liabilities 74,443

33 Interlocutory profit and loss statement as of 31st December 2013 in thousands of CZK

Income Costs Interests 2 Consumption of material 69 Exchange rate income 146 Consumption of energies 34 Settlement funds 379 Repairs and maintenance 1 Sales of stock income 58,991 Travel expenses 31 Income from the long-term financial means 356 Representation expenses 55 Received donations 5 Other services 768 Total income 59,879 Wages 1,617 Obligatory social insurance 507 Obligatory social costs 31 Other social costs 7 Other costs 66 Exchange rate loss 219 Stocks and shares sold 54,177 Total costs 57,582 Net loss (gain) 2,297

The complete wording of the Addendum is enclosed as a part of the Collection of Documents in the Foundation Registry.

34 Auditor’s Statement

INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT for the founder and the board of directors Responsibility of the of the FHV corporate body for the final balance 10. A report about verification of the annual report According to the Czech law, the respon- sibility for the creation of the final balance We investigated the concord of the an- and for the true information presented in the nual reports of the FHV and the final balance final balance lies within the corporate body auditing standards and relevant other regula- included in this annual report. We verified of the FHV. According to the Czech law, the tions of the Chamber of Czech auditors. In it and on 3rd April 2014 we issued a Report responsibility for the creation of the final bal- accordance with these laws we are obliged of an independent auditor in the following ance and for the true information presented to keep ethical norms and to carry out the wording: in the final balance lies within the corporate audit without errors. “We verified the final balance of the FHV, body of the FHV. Within the audit we used techniques i.e. the balance as of 31st December 2013, that aim to discover information about sums Statement of profits and losses for the year Auditor’s responsibility and facts included in the final balance. The ending on 31st December 2013 and the ap- methods used are chosen by the auditor pendix of the balance including the description Our role is to issue auditor’s report on the bearing in mind he or she has to balance the of the used accounting method. The basic basis of our audit. We carried out the report methods according to the risk of expected information about the fund is listed on page in accordance with the law concerning audi- mistakes or frauds included in the balance. 1 of this balance. tors and in accordance with the international When judging these risks the auditor takes

35 into account the relevant internal supervisory The responsibility for accuracy of the an- Auditor’s statement accounting means. The auditor judges these nual report rests with the corporate body means in order to plan his audit not in order of the FHV. Our task is to issue a statement In our opinion all the information stated in to judge the effect of the supervisory ac- about the accord of the annual reports with the annual report of Foundation for holocaust counting means. The audit includes judging the final balance. victims for 2013 is in all important aspects in the relevance of used accounting methods, accord with the final balance. feasibility of accounting estimates carried out We carried out the validation according by the leadership and judging of the overall to the accounting law and the international BVM Audit s.r.o. presentation of the final balance. auditor standards and relevant other regula- a member of the international association of We presume that we managed to collect tions of the Chamber of Czech auditors. These independent professional companies relevant basis for the auditor’s statement. standards require that the auditor plans and MSI Global Alliance, Legal & Accounting Firms carries out the audit in a way that insures Vseboricka 82/2, 400 01 Usti nad Labem Auditor’s statement a high degree of certainty that the informa- tion included in the annual report relevant Ing. Miroslava Nebuzelska In our opinion, the financial statements for the final balance is in accord with the License number 277 give a true and fair view on the assets and final balance. We presume, that the carried License number 2092 liabilities and the financial situation of the out verification represents a valid basis for FOUNDATION FOR HOLOCAUST VICTIMS as auditor’s statement. In Prague, 30th May 2014 of 31st December 2013 and costs, incomes and outcomes of its functioning in the year ending by 31st December 2013. The financial statement is in accordance with the Czech accounting law and respective regulations.”

36 The Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board

he FHV board of directors met five times The supervisory board met separately four Tduring the year 2013, always with mem- times. The supervisory board members actively bers of the supervisory board present. participate at the FHV events, they are at hand 11. Due to time restraints, the board voted on to help the FHV administration, and they work important issues by letter several times. for free. Board of Directors

by the Jewish community in Prague. He is a Acoustics. Professor Kolmer is a survivor of the Ing. Michal Borges proud grandfather of four grandsons and a concentration camps in Terezin, Auschwitz and Chairman granddaughter called Ester. Friedland. From 1949 till 1991, he worked in Secretary General of the Prague The Research Institute of Sound, Picture and Jewish Community. At the beginning of the Speaker Technology in Prague as a scientist, 90s, he actively participated in the process Prof. Ing. Felix Kolmer, DrSc. and later on as the Head of the Acoustic depart- of returning the immovable property back to Honorary Chairman ment, Scientific Vice-Director, and Director of the Jewish communities. From 1992 to the A graduate of the Faculty of the Institute. After his retirement, he worked beginning of 2006, he was in charge of Matana, Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical as an advisor to the Director of the Institute. a.s., which deals with the management and University in Prague and the Czech Techni- Since 1962, he has collaborated with the Czech development of immovable property owned cal University with a major in Physics and Technical University, later with the Film and TV

37 School of the Academy of Performing Arts as PhDr. Tomas Hrbek Members a teacher of Acoustics, and since 1982, with Vice-chair the academic title of Professor, he is teaching A graduate of an 11-Year Second- JUDr. Hana Fristenska at this school until today. He is the author of ary School in Olomouc, after his graduation a member since many publications and gives lectures all over exams he worked for the Pozemni Stavby Con- 18th November 2013 the world. Lately, he has mostly been giving struction Company, constructing Farmakon. She is a lawyer. Between 1977 and 1991 she lectures on Czech-German relations during Later, after a period of personal hardships, worked as a curator and methodologist of the work WWII, and on the life in the concentration he studied Czech and English at the Faculty with Roma in Prague. Since 1991 she worked in the camps, to German schools and Christian-Jewish of Arts at Palacky University in Olomouc. Till Department for Human Rights of the Czechoslovak Societies in Germany. He holds several state 1990, he taught at the Secondary School of Goverment. Since 1993 she was the director of the awards and is an honourable member of several Economics in Olomouc, and from 1990, he Board for minorities office of the Czechoslovak scientific societies in the Czech Republic and worked as the Chancellor of Palacky University, government. Between 1996 and 2005 she was the abroad. Currently, Professor Kolmer is a Vice- simultaneously teaching for a short period, at director of the office of the Board for NGOs of the President of the Internationales Auschwitz the Faculty of Arts, the history of theatre. From Czechoslovak government. Between 2005–2009 Komitee, vice-chairman of the Czech Auschwitz 2008 to 2010, he worked as a pensioner for she worked as the vice-chair of the Fund for the Committee, is a member of the Board of the the Communication Department of Palacky development of civic society. Since 2010, she has Bundesverband für Information und Beratung University. Currently, he is an employee of the returned to work as the head of the department der NS-Verfolgten in Cologne, Germany and Olomouc Jewish Community and works as an in the Board for NGOs in the Czech government. a member of the Board of the Terezin Initiative, editor of its monthly newspaper “Chajejnu”. She is an author of several essays in the field of the Board of Directors of the Czech Association Dr. Hrbek is married and has two sons, one NGO sector or the multiculturalism. for the Victims of Nazism, the Council of the grandson and two granddaughters. Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech MUDr. Roman Joch Republic and a member of the Czech-German a member until 30th Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the September 2013 Czech Republic and Germany. Studiet at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles

38 University (1996). In 1994—1998 he was the Online, managing the website iHNed.cz. From chenwald. His short-term after-war affair with foreign deputy of the ODA party. In 1996 he 2003 to 2009, he was CEO of Economia publishing. communism ended when his parents were started to work for the Civic Institute, he has Since 2007, he has been chairman of the board of imprisoned during the political trials in the been its director since 2003. He teaches at directors of the Slovak publishing house Ecopress, 1950s. At that time, he worked as a cook and the Prague University of Economics and at a Between 2011 and 2012 he was the director of archive worker. From 1953, he worked in the private university Cevro institut. He is a analyst the 7 Plus Bratislava publishing house. Between field of publishing, and in 1968 he became and an author. He is interested in political 1997 to 2011 he was the vice-president of the the head of the Svoboda publishing house. In philosophy, foreign policy and international World press assiociation in Paris. August 1968, he emigrated to Switzerland and security issues. From 2010 to 2013 he was an In 2003, he bought a decaying building of later to Germany, where he established himself advisor to the Czech PM Petr Necas in the field the former synagogue in Hartmanice na Sumave, as a publisher and became an influential player of human rights and foreign policy. established a civic association that reconstructed on the German political scene. He supported the synagogue, and runs a monument that re- mainly the German Social Democrats. Since 1990, Ing. Michal Klima minds us of the co-existence of Czechs, Germans he has lived both in Prague and Frankfurt am He founded and hes chaired the and Jews in the Sumava region. He publishes Main. In the Czech Republic, he used to publish first tablet publishing house Tablet political commentaries and articles mostly focus- the newspapers Zemske noviny and Slovo. Media, which publishes the tablet weekly DOTYK. ing on the problems of the media in newspapers He worked as an advisor concerning German Graduated from Czech Technical University in and magazines. Occasionally, he gives lectures speaking countries to the Czech PMs and he 1984. Till 1989, he worked as a computer pro- in the Czech Republic as well as abroad. His wife was an advisor to the foreign affairs minister grammer. From 1990 to 1997, he was the head works for the National Gallery. Schwarzenberg. He is a member of the Czech of Lidove Noviny publishing. From 1998 to 2000, PEN club. In 2002, he was honoured with the he was the executive director of Economia, the Commendation Ribbon by President Havel. In publisher of Hospodarske Noviny and Ekonom, Prof. Tomáš Kosta 2009, he was one of the key attendees at the the weekly and monthly specialized magazines. a member until 31st May 2013 Conference About the Fate of the Property of In 2000, he established, and later managed for He was born in Prague. During Holocaust Victims. three years, an internet publishing, Economia WWII, he was in Terezin, Auschwitz and Bu-

39 PhDr. Tatjana Peliskova Tribune, Boston Globe, ABC News). She is the Property. Since 1st May 2014 she is the head of A graduate of the Faculty of Arts at cooperated with Petra Prochazkova (Agentura the State property management. A lecturer on Masaryk University in Brno, with a Epicentrum) on the documentary called Afghani issues of treatment and management of state major in Ethnology and the History of Art. She shangrila. She was an advisor at the department property, she has been collaborating with the has worked in the Czech Radio music section, of Middle East and Africa of the Czech Ministry FHV on an external basis since 2004, and since further as the Brno Jewish Community Secretary. of foreign affairs. Since 2005 she works as an 2008 is a member of the board of directors. Currently, she works in public relations. She is the interpretor (English and Hebrew). She speaks representative of the Brno Jewish Community English, Hebrew, Czech and German. Mgr. Jiri Vajcner, Ph.D. in the Federation of Jewish Communities in A graduate of a technical high- the Czech Republic. Dr. Peliskova is married JUDr. Dagmar Tyserova school in Straznice and a Business and has two adult sons. A lawyer of the Property Rights College in Prague. In 1995–2000, he studied Department of the Ministry of at the Catholic Theological Faculty at Charles Michaela Rozov Finance of the Czech Republic, and a graduate University, and in 2004–2007 he studied for a member since 4th June 2013 of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in his Ph.D. in Architecture at the Czech Technical She is a graduate of Columbia Uni- Prague. Has worked as a lawyer in the Foreign University. He is fluent in English and French. versity (journalism) and the Hebrew University in Currency Section of the Office for Property He is currently a director of the Department Jerusalem (political science, modern Jewish his- and Foreign Currency Administration. From of Care for Historical Sites of the Ministry of tory). Her MA thesis from the later was awarded 1991 to 2008, she worked at the Ministry Culture. He lectures at Charles University and with the Erich Kulka Price (excellent Holocaust of Finance as a Manager of the Department the Institute for Public Administration in Prague. study). Until 2003 she worked as a journalyst of Extrajudicial Rehabilitations with special He works for several prominent governmental writing reports and analytical studies mainly focus on restitutions. Since 2000, she has institutions. He publishes on the topics of care on the Middle East conflict and the political been working in a special commission of the for architectural heritage. He is a blood donor. situation, religion, culture and social issues in Ministry of Finance focusing on privatization. Israel (Respekt, Mlada fronta, Lidove noviny). In 2010-2014, she was the head of the Depart- She worked also for American press (Chicago ment for Approving Depositing with National

40 Supervisory Board

JUDr. Jaroslav Niklas, Ph.D. Members Jiri Süss Chairman Graduate of a Secondary School of Graduate of the Faculty of Law at Economics – general economics, Charles University in Prague. From 1991, he Michael Lichtenstein and later, while working, he also managed to worked as a lawyer at the State Property Fund Graduate of a Secondary School study the customs procedures and at a school and, from 2006, at the Ministry of Finance in the of Chemistry, further the Insti- for basketball coaches. Currently, he works as Section of Privatization of State Property, Eco- tute of the Industrial Ministry, focusing on the a freelancer. logical Damages Department. For the Ministry management and economics of industry. Since of Finance, he leads a contractual agenda and 1990, he has held managerial positions, such coordinates the collaboration of selected foun- as Business Director of MIPEBO, a.s., and later dations and endowment funds as an assignor an Executive Director of Chaver. In 2007, he of endowment benefits of the Foundation finished his studies of PR and Marketing of Investment Fund. He has been collaborating NGOs. Currently he is the Vice-Chairman of the with the FHV since the first year of its existence. Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Since 1st July 2009, he has been a member of Republic and a Vice-Chairman of the board of the supervisory board and currently he is its directors of the Teplice Jewish Community. He is chairman. He has an adult daughter and two a lecturer for the Ministry of Education teaching grandchildren. on the Holocaust.

41 The Staff

Bc. Andrea Fictumova Coordinator of Programmes Care, Remembrance and Mgr. Tereza Vanova Future Subject Specialist A 3rd year MA student of Historical Sociology at A graduate of MA programme in Hebrew and 12. the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University. Jewish Studies at Oxford University. Before She is a member of the Duha-Tangram NGO. coming to the FHV, she taught Judaism and She has been working for FHV since September Hebrew at the Lauder Jewish Day School in 2003. In 2013 was born her third son Petr. Prague. She joined the FHV in 2010, while enjoying her parental duties on maternity leave with her two daughters, Johanka and Rozarka. Mgr. Marta Mala, Th.D. Director Bc. Ester Karasova Received her Th.D. at the Hussite Theological Financial Manager Faculty at Charles University, Prague with her A student of Social Work at Masaryk University dissertation “Judaism in the Terezin Ghetto”. She in Brno. She has been working in NGOs since is a teacher of Jewish traditions and prepares 2004 as an accountant, budget manager and workshops for the Jewish community children administrator of grants. She has been working and adults. She enjoys being a mother of her as a financial manager in FHV since December two sons, David and Matyas. 2012. She has a daughter called Eliska and two sons called Jakub and Matej.

42 Ing. Michaela Vintrova Katerina Steinova Financial Manager Administrative Assistant (until 31st January 2013) A 2011 graduate of Lauder high school in In February 2014, she graduated from MA Prague. She is the author of a book about the programme in Economy and Management history of the Jewish orphanage in Belgicka at the University of Economics in Prague. She street in Prague. Currently, she is a 3rd year helped with the FHV events as a volunteer student of the Faculty of Law at Charles Uni- since 2006. In 2009, she started to work in versity of Prague. She has been working for the foundation – at first as an administrative the FHV since the beginning of 2011. worker, since 2011 as the financial manager. She left FHV in January 2013, when she started her studies in Brussels in an Erasmus programme.

Volunteers

Alena Altmanova, Ester Peterova, Anna Perinova, Tereza Portesova, Petr Sraier

We wish to thank our volunteers for their work at our events.

43 Donate to FHV, even a small donation makes a Our Donors big difference We are deeply thankful to all our donors!

Czech Republic, Jiri Fictum, Terezin Initiative and Conseq Investment for financial support Institute, Mario Izcovich, Ester Janeckova, of our projects. 13. Martin Jelinek, Rudolf Jelinek, King Solomon restaurant, mamacoffee, Lostice Town, Lauder Foundation, Petr Papousek, Radio 1, Respekt and Tolerance, Baracnicka rychta restaurant, e are thankful for all donations sent to Jakub Rozen, Pavlina Schulz, Jiri Süss, USA Wour public collection account. Embassy in Prague, Jewish Museum in Public collection for the We also thank those that attend our benefi- Prague, Olomouc Jewish Community, ciary concert and donors that wish to remain Prague Jewish Community. We wish support of programmes anonymous. to thank Frantisek Banyai, whose Care, Remebrance, donation was used to cover the costs We are thankful to all our partners that of Shoa commemoration events. Renovation and Future: support us during our events: We thank The American Jewish UniCredit Bank Ciderie, Ceske vinarstvi Chramce, CSOB Joint Distribution Committee, Erin- 502-2685554004/2700 Asset Management, Distillery Kleiner, Dinitz nerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft BIC: BACX CZ PP, Kosher restaurace, EL AL Israel Airline, ES4U, foundation, Prague Jewish Com- Federation of Jewish Communities in the munity, Liberec Jewish Community IBAN: CZ73 2700 0005 022685554004

44 Donations from the Public Collection Donations from the Public Collection that shall distributed in the 12th grant call in 2013 be distributed in the 13th grant call in 2014

Amount Donor Amount (in CZK) Donor Used for (in CZK) Bilek Pavel 5,000 Bilek Pavel 5,500 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors Dostal Michal 10,000 Buchler Tomas 6,000 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors Kubistova Mila 30,000 5,000 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors Labendz Radka 500 Dostal Michal 5,000 Educational and Cultural Events in the Pasternak Tomas 16,000 Liberec Jewish Community 2013 Snajdrova Dita 3,500 Tikvah Home Care Agency – Social Servi- Henman Laufer Peter 2,009 Sova Vladimir 500 ces Provider Ostrava Jewish Community Svetlik Jiri 3,000 Tikvah Home Care Agency – Social Servi- Hromadkova D. Ester 600 ces Provider Ostrava Jewish Community Unknown Donors 1,200 Tikvah Home Care Agency – Social Servi- Total 69,700 Kubistova Mila 20,000 ces Provider Ostrava Jewish Community Papousek Petr 1,000 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors Sevcikova Alena, Hrouzkova Radmila, 900 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors Other donations used in 2013 Slaninova Milena Amount Snajdrova Dita 3,500 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors Donor Used for (in CZK) Svetlik Jiri 3,000 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors 16,583 Yom ha-Shoa Tikvah Home Care Agency – Social Servi- Unknown Donors 3,700 ces Provider Ostrava Jewish Community Conseq Investment 1,084 Seminar for Jewish Educators Unknown Donors 3,820 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors 2,333 Holocaust Day 2014 Tikvah Home Care Agency – Social Servi- 63,645 Beneficiary concert 2013 Zitkova Hana 2,000 CSOB Asset Management ces Provider Ostrava Jewish Community 3,034 Holocaust Day 2014 Total 62,029 Donations at the occasion of Beneficiary 23,537 Dignified Old Age for Holocaust Survivors concert in 2012

45 Donations at the occasion of 88,626 Holocaust Day 2013 Prague Jewish 237,500 Our Future Programme Frantisek Banyai’s birthday 32,035 Yom ha-Shoa Community 93,266 Salaries Seminar fees 9,900 Seminar for Jewish Educators 6,965 Other services The American Jewish Joint 52,050 Social Care Fieldwork for the Needy Distribution 23,349 Seminar for Jewish Educators Clients 2013 Committee 200,000 Support of the Therapeutic Centre – Total 1,651,202 Families after the Holocaust 67,594 Home is Home 61,740 Social Counceling Other donations that shall be used in 2014 Erinnerung, Verantwortung 67,594 Social Centre for Olomouc Jewish und Zukunft Foundation Community Holocaust Survivors and Amount Donor Used for Second Generation (in CZK) 67,594 Social Care for Decin Jewish Community Conseq Investment 20,000 FHV events Members CSOB Asset Management 73,320 FHV events 67,594 Social Care for Karlovy Vary Jewish Donations at the occasion of Community Members 32,780 FHV Grant endowments Beneficiary concert in 2013 420,046 Reimbursment for drugs, food suple- Donations on the occasion of 4,770 FHV events ments, medical aids and health and educational seminar preventive care Used on the basis of recommenda- Federation of Jewish Erinnerung, Verantwortung 10,000 Seminar for Jewish Educators 10,415 tion of Erinnerung, Verantwortung Communities in the und Zukunft Foundation 16,433 Educational seminars und Zukunft Foundation Czech Republic Joint Distribution Committee 7,538 FHV events Fictum Jiri 2,000 Other services Prague Jewish Community 242,500 Our Future Programme Jelinek Martin 3,400 Other services Total 391,323 Liberec Jewish “Tikvah” Home Care Agency – 800 Community Social Services Provider Prague Jewish 12,500 Administration costs related to the Community coordination of Our Future Programme

46 Basic Data

Foundation for Holocaust Victims

Seat: Web site: Maiselova 18, 110 00 Praha 1, www.fondholocaust.cz Czech Republic Public collection account: 14. Office Location: UniCredit Bank Legerova 22/1854, 120 00 Praha 2, 502-2685554004/2700, BIC: BACX CZ PP, Czech Republic IBAN: CZ7327000005022685554004

Phone: Registration number: (+420) 224 261 615, 224 261 573 26189381

Fax: Entry to the Registry of Foundations: (+420) 224 262 563 administrated by the Regional Commercial Court in Prague, Section N, Insert 344, Email: 31st July 2000 [email protected]

47 © 2014 Foundation for Holocaust Victims

Layout & typo:______Jiri Fictum Translation:______Tereza Gafna Vanova Photos:______Bejt Simcha, Petr Balajka, Besamim, Betanie – Christian Aid, Jindrich Buxbaum, Karel Cudlin, Czech Union of Jewish Students, Hagibor Old Age Home, Jaromir Hejl, Tomas Hrbek, Chinuch, Prirodni skola High School, Daniela Kastankova, Dasha Kopecka, Lauder Jewish Day School, Petr Mikovec, Foundation for Holocaust Victims, Iva Steinova, Katerina Weberova, Olomouc Jewish Community, Brno Jewish Community, Prague Jewish Community Historical documents:______Terezin Initiative Institute Printed by:______Carter\reproplus s.r.o.

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