Ing. Karel Holomek Dr. Artúr Grünzweig Bedřiška Felixová Věra Weberová

Erika Juklová Doris Grozdanovičová Prof. RNDr. Eva Smolková Ing. Michal Salomonovič Keulemansová, DrSc.

Brigadier General Ing. Pavel Fried Academic Painter Prof. Ing. Felix Kolmer, DrSc. Pavel Vranský Helga Hošková, Dr.hc

The Annual Report is illustrated by the portraits of Holocaust/Shoa survivors made by Jindrich Bauxbaum. The eye-witnesses also shared with us their message. Table of Contents

1. Forewords of the Chairman of the Board of Directors....16 2. Mission Statement and Activities...... 17 3. Grant Programmes...... 19 4. Care Programme...... 20 5. Remembrance Programme...... 22 6. Renovation Programme...... 26 7. Future Programme...... 29 8. Our Future Sub-Programme...... 33 9. Projects of Our Own...... 35 10. Grant of the Ministry of Culture...... 39 11. Financial Report...... 41 12. Auditor’s Statement...... 45 13. The Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board...... 46 14. Employees...... 50 15. Our Donors...... 51 16. Basic Data...... 55

3 Ing. Karel Holomek

survived as a hidden child with his two- -year-younger sister

“To serve a good thing and fight evil, always and in all circumstances! That is the only way to preserve one´s mental health, which is, especially these days, quite fundamental.” Dr. Artúr Grünzweig

survived the concentration camp in Wiener Neustadt

“Father, mother and then six-year-old sister, Zuzana, died in the concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1944. I returned to my native village of Vlčany (now Slovak Republic) from the harsh environment of the camp both mentally and physically exhausted. For a long time, I actively helped some racially persecuted people to return to normal life.

As an eternal optimist, I firmly believe that the democratic forces in the world will not allow extreme forces to continue with the policy of hatred and racial and ethnic orientation in the future.” Bedřiška Felixová

survived the Terezín Ghetto

“I wish no one would ever experience the horrors that we went through.” Věra Weberová

survived the Terezín Ghetto

“We will never be able to stop the time and every year, in the ranks of the witnesses, there will be more and more empty spaces. It has never been easy for me, and with age it's even harder for me – both physically and mentally – to tell others, particularly young people, what I had to go through and who of my dear ones I lost. Nevertheless, when I see the attentive eyes during my discussion forums in the Czech Republic and abroad, and hear the questions of the students and their teachers, I feel that it makes sense. I perceive that this is perhaps for all of us who are still alive, something like a duty. So, if it is at least a bit possible, I will keep doing so...” Erika Juklová

survived the camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald Allendorf

“I do not wish to anyone to ever go through the Holocaust experience. Well, perhaps just to those who really want to hurt us. Baruch hashem, I'm a contented and cheerful personality. I have a good family, the best family in the world. I regularly visit the Old-New Synagogue and I am grateful to my uncle, Major Ph. Arnošt Friedmann, and the Czech Republic, that I can live in this country.” Doris Grozdanovičová

survived the Terezín Ghetto

“I am often invited to schools in our country and in Germany, to tell students about my life based on historical events I went through. I sometimes wonder how little their awareness of the history of their country and their ancestors is.” Prof. RNDr. Eva Smolková Keulemansová, DrSc.

survived the Terezín Ghetto, concentration camps in Auschwitz- -Birkenau, Hamburg and Bergen-Belsen

“I have been through sadness and suffering – but I also experienced lot of joy and goodness in my life. And, although people (humanity) seem to be incorrigible and unreformable, there is and still is a lot of beauty and friendship in the world that brings joy and strength to overcome the difficulties in life.” Ing. Michal Salomonovič

survived the Lodz Ghetto, the camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, and Flossenbürg in Dresden

“Now, there are just a few of us who went through concentration camps, where we were just numbers with David's star attached to the prison uniform. We survived, and our duty is to communicate our experiences from the past, especially to young people, so that they never experience our destiny.” Brigadier General Pavel Vranský

World War II veteran

“I'm very glad I had such a brave mother that managed to get me, my father and my brother abroad ahead of time. Unfortunately, she herself bore the consequences for her deed and perished. All three of us strived to fight that everlasting evil, the anti-Semitism, that, in the Nazi Germany mutated into the arrant form – the extermina- tion of all Jews within its reach. Me and my brother, we both fought for freedom and destruction of the Nazi empire with the weapon in our hands and the father, due to his age, in the war industry. The result can be seen today, the Nazism was destroyed, but the anti-Semitism still exists in the world, whether latent or manifested, and it will probably never disappear. We must remain vigilant against this evil, and use all means and power to restrict it, if its complete elimination is not possible.” Ing. Pavel Fried

survived the Terezín concentration camp

“Shoah is not a tragedy of Jewish people only. Shoah is the tragedy of all mankind, the sanctity of human life ended in the Auschwitz gas chambers. For many years now, I have been visiting the discussion forums to talk about the Shoah, about the ways that led to it, about the guilt and the punishment. When I count all the visitors to those forums, I come to the total estimate being over 6000. What I find very encouraging is that, over all those years, I have not met any interfering or negative response from the audience. I have experienced the contrary – clear interest, curiosity and compassion. That gives me the strength to continue in that.” Academic Painter Helga Hošková, Dr.h.c.

survived the Terezín Ghetto, camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Freiberg and Mauthausen

“Value the freedom, protect life and preserve cultural values and nature. Learn and do not repeat the mistakes of the past.” Prof. Ing. Felix Kolmer, DrSc. survived the Terezín Ghetto, and camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Friedland

“Every human should assign himself to do something for the society. Otherwise, our culture, and later also our society, will slowly collapse. One cannot only take, one also has to give.” Forewords of the Chairman of the Board of Directors

The Foundation for Holocaust Victims continued of funding provided, but also due to the fact – CZK20 million. Most of these funds were to fulfill its important mission in 2016. Helping that these contributions are a prerequisite for used for the restoration of Jewish monuments. Holocaust victims is the humanitarian role of the a co-financing of projects by other entities. The In addition, the FHV has still been distributing Foundation. We have allocated CZK4.5 million results of this long-lasting support are visible. the funds deposited into the fund upon its es- for this purpose, the money was distributed among During the time of the FHV existence, a lot tablishment, alongside with the means acquired 13 projects. In total, this aid has reached 350 peo- of successful reconstructions of deteriorating through its current work. ple – apart from direct survivors, the funds also synagogues have been done, many devastated supported their descendants. We have contributed Jewish cemeteries have been restored and an aid The FHV plays an irreplaceable role in all areas three million crowns to activities commemorating to many other monuments has been provided. in which the Foundation is involved. Due to the Shoah. Unfortunately, the political situation in low cost of its operation, the Foundation is able to today´s world and in our country is developing in The FHV supporting activities include a support use all of its resources on the activities for which way that we have to be reminded of the horrors of of the current activities associated with Judaism, the money is intended. Due to the qualified, the Holocaust now more than ever before. maintaining of Jewish cultural traditions and informed and flexible decision-making, the FHV development of Jewish communities. This category can effectively help where the aid would otherwise The FHV spends the largest sums of money on includes a support for projects fighting xenophobia be difficult to find. renovation and maintenance of monuments re- and anti-Semitism. The FHV budget supported lated to the life of Jewish community throughout a total of 38 projects with one million CZK. We I would like to thank the entire staff of the the territory of the Czech Republic. In 2016, supported 12 projects directly targeting Jewish Foundation Secretariat and to my colleagues from CZK12.8 million were allocated for this pur- families and the youngest members of the commu- the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board pose. We supported 21 projects. Some projects, nity by a subsidy amounting half a million CZK. for their time, effort and dedicated work for the though, concerned more than one monument, Foundation for Holocaust Victims. I'm convinced i.e. there were many more supported monuments. In 2016, the largest volume of distributed funds it's time devoted to the right thing. The FHV foundation plays an important role was drawn from a subsidy received through in this field and that not only in the amount the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic Michal Klíma 16 Mission Statement and Activities

We mitigate the injustices of the past and support the future.

Our main activity is a financial support of projects in the following programmes: Care Remembrance Renovation Future

social, medical and educational and Holocaust renovation and maintenance Jewish education and the psychological care for remembrance projects, of Jewish monuments in development of Jewish Shoa survivors Bohemia and Moravia Communities

and sub-programme Our Future – projects for young Jewish families with children.

We complement the support by organising our own projects, especially professional seminars. For more information see chapter 9.

17 The FHV was established on July 31, 2000 on of racial laws and who were unable to retrieve We inform about our activities on our the basis of the recommendations of the “Joint it or receive compensation through the then website www.fondholocaust.cz, through Working Committee Focusing on Mitigating applicable restitution laws or international our Facebook profile and in our quarterly Some Property Injustices to Holocaust Victims”. agreements. The programme has been closed InfoBulletin. On September 15, 2000, based on the govern- for several years now and our Foundation is mental proposal, the Chamber of Deputies currently not dealing with claims of this kind We are a member of the Association of Founda- of the Czech Parliament made a decision to in any way. tions of Donors Forum (www.donorsforum.cz/ transfer funds, amounting CZK300 million, asociace-nadacnich-fondu) and of the over to the Foundation for Holocaust Victims. On December 18, 2014, the FHV signed an International Auschwitz Committee In the years 2001–2005 we administrated agreement with the Czech Ministry of Culture (www.auschwitz.info). the Compensation programme, in which we on a five-year financing period in which an distributed CZK100 million among those, endowment benefit amounting CZK20 mil- whose property in today’s Czech Republic had lion will be transferred to FHV´s account on been confiscated during WWII on the basis yearly basis.

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18 Grant Programmes

Care, Remembrance, Renovation, Future and Our Future

The Foundation for Holocaust Victims supports In Care and Renovation Programmes, there present the FHV with progress and final re- projects based on a public tender. The call for is no limit for a maximum requested amount. ports on the projects, as well as reports on the proposals is announced once a year, usually in The maximum amount of the endowment budget. All projects are subject to an audit. We July, and the deadline for projects is September. benefit within the Future and Our Future actively participate in supported projects and The projects are realised during the following year. programmes is CZK100,000. in case the beneficiary asks for any assistance, All applications are processed through we provide them with our support. FHV supports projects prepared especially by Grantys – an Electronic Grant Database at organisations under the umbrella of the Feder- www.nfoh-granty.cz. Projects in the Remembrance, Renovation ation of Jewish Communities, NGOs, public The applications are evaluated by the respective and Future (including the Our Future) sub- beneficial organisations, institutions established grant committees nominated by the FHV programme are funded by the Ministry of by the church, public service institutions, and Board of Directors. The Board of Directors Culture subsidies, the Care program is covered allowance organisations registered within the grants endowment benefits on the basis of their from our own financial resources and the Czech Republic. All organisations must be recommendation. donations we receive. registered in the Czech Republic. Physical The results of grant call are published on the persons are not entitled to ask for benefits. FHV website and all applicants are informed In 2016, we supported in total 112 projects We only support projects that are realised within in writing. We sign contracts with all of our majority of which were co-financed by the the territory of the Czech Republic. successful applicants. Afterwards we follow Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The endowment benefits are granted for and review the use of the monetary means a period of 11 months, and in case of Care during the implementation of the project. On December 14, 2016, the FHV Board of programme the period is one calendar year. In case of any violation of contractual terms Directors selected 120 projects that will re- We favour projects having various financing and conditions, we demand the return of the ceive a support in 2017 amounting a total of sources. granted money. The supported organisations CZK22 million. 19 Care Programme

Each year we support the projects of organisations that provide professional social care, healthcare and psychological care to Holocaust survivors. The care for survivors is our priority. We strive to support them in their quality life and provide them with the best available care in their old age. We financially support home care, nursing services, psychological aid, residential care, day care centres run by Jewish communities, social workers, social advisory services, personal assistants, medical care, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, phone contact services and many other activation programmes. We shall not forget about the survivor´s second gen- eration. Overall, we support the care for about 350 clients. In relation to Claims Conference projects, we cooperate with a project coordinator Dita Šnajdrová from Czech office.

Overview of Granted Endowment Benefits in 2016 In 2016, we granted endowment benefits in a total amount of CZK4,502,874 and we ran 13 projects.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Betanie – Christian Aid Residential Care for Holocaust Survivors 300,000 Děčín Jewish Community Social Care for Děčín Jewish Community Members 140,000 Hospic Civic Association Hospice and supporting services of “Cesta domů“ organisation 15,000 “Cesta domu“ JAS Agency, Brno Jewish Community Care for the Holocaust Survivors II 700,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Social Care for Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Members 140,000 Liberec Jewish Community Social Care and Fieldwork for the Needy Clients 2016 150,000 Living Memory “Ghettorente” – Expert Social Advisory Services 20,000 Ostrava Jewish Community “Tikvah” Home Care Agency – Social Services Provider 600,000 Prague Jewish Community Ezra Complex Home Care – Social and Health Care with Special Attention to the Needs of Holocaust Survivors 600,000 Prague Jewish Community Hagibor Old Age Home 1,100,000 Prague Jewish Community Social Services for Holocaust Survivors 400,000 Rafael Institute Psycho-therapeutic Support of the Clients from the Families after the Holocaust 180,000 20 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Teplice Jewish Community Social Work and Expert Advisory on Social Matters to Teplice Jewish Community 140,000

These projects were supported by the endowment granted to them in the previous (2016) grant call: Děčín Jewish Community Social Care for Děčín Jewish Community Members 17,874 Total 4,502,874

Overview of the Projects Awarded the Support in 2017 For the grant period of the next year, the Board of Directors decided to support 15 projects with a total amount of CZK4,500,000. The programme is financed by our own means and from acquired donations.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Betanie – Christian Aid Residential Care for Holocaust Survivors 280,000 Brno Jewish Community Care for the Holocaust Survivors 650,000 Děčín Jewish Community Social Care for Děčín Jewish Community Members 130,000 Hospic Civic Association Hospice and supporting services of “Cesta domů“ organisation 30,000 “Cesta domu“ Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Social Care for Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Members 150,000 Liberec Jewish Community Social Care and Fieldwork for the Needy Clients 2017 150,000 Living Memory “Ghettorente” – Expert Social Advisory Services 24,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Social Activation of the First and Second Generation of the Olomouc Jewish Community Holocaust 130,000 Survivors Ostrava Jewish Community “Tikvah” Home Care Agency – Social Services Provider 600,000 Prague Jewish Community Ezra Complex Home Care – Social and Health Care with Special Attention to the Needs of Holocaust 580,000 Survivors Prague Jewish Community Hagibor Old Age Home 1,100,000 Prague Jewish Community Social Services for Holocaust Survivors 350,000 Rafael Institute Psycho-therapeutic Support of the Clients from the Families after the Holocaust 180,000 Sue Ryder Home Personal Assistance for Holocaust Survivors 16,000 Teplice Jewish Community Professional Advisory Services for Elderly Clients 130,000

21 Remembrance Programme

We support a dignified remembrance of Jewish and Roma Holocaust victims. We focus our attention to the education of young people through supporting activities having an expert leadership with an involvement of Shoa witnesses. We also contribute to various commemoration events and pious acts, exhibitions, workshops, researches or book publications.

Overview of Granted Endowment Benefits in 2016 In 2016, 32 projects were financed within the Remembrance programme by an amount of CZK2,980,323.58, the source of the funds is the subsidy of the Ministry of Culture.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Association of Jewish Soldiers and Jews in War and Resistance – Exhibition 13,000 Resistance Fighters in Prague Association of Released Political Travelling Exhibition “Sights of Suffering, Death and Heroism” 50,000 Prisoners and Survivors Barrister & Principal Jan Jelínek – Jizvy na duši (Scars on the Soul) 15,000 Brno Jewish Community The Testimony of Terezín Walls (collection of photographs) 40,000 Committee for the Redress of Roma 2016 Remembrance Event in Lety 20,000 Holocaust Dobříš Regional Musem Association Jews in Dobříš Region – Book 49,973 Hartmanice Memorial Do you know what Holocaust is? 80,000 Jewish Liberal Union in the My Father and my Mother Survived 60,000 Czech Republic Jewish Monument Restoration “In Memoriam“ Memorial of Holocaust Victims in Peruc Area 40,000 Society of Peruc Jewish Museum in Prague Educational programs at the Jewish Museum in Prague 450,000 Jewish Museum in Prague Jewish Memory in the 20 Century 150,000 Jewish Museum in Prague Pinkas´ Synagogue Transformation 400,000

22 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) KreBul Remembering Humanity 2016 30,000 Living Memory Lost Roma and Roma Today – Roma Holocaust, Its Traces in the After-War Czechoslovakia and the Life 50,000 of Roma in the Czech Republic Look of the Motion Picture 32 Secret Pages – Acted Documentary 110,000 Masaryk University of Brno Holocaust Survivor 93,410 Museum of Romani Culture “Cikánský Boxer“ (Roma Boxer) Performance and Spectator Workshop 43,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Digital Database of Jewish Citizens of Olomouc 40,000 Ostrava Jewish Community We Shall Not Forget, Shoa Continues to Be a Threat – an ongoing project 30,000 Plzeň Jewish Community 2016 – Remembering January Transports 20,941 Post Bellum Special Treatment (Sonderbahandlung) 40,000 Prague Jewish Community Concert on the Occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Day of the Prevention 50,000 of Inhumane Crimes Prague Shoa Memorial Drumming for Bubny 70,000 Romano Džaniben Teaching Roma History 2016 40,000 Teplice Jewish Community Teplice Jews – Holocaust Survivors (exhibition of photographs) 50,000 Terezín Initiative Institute Holocaust.cz 130,000 Terezín Initiative Institute Jom HaShoa / Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 70,000 Terezín Initiative Fight Against Anti-Semitism in Czech Schools 600,000 Threshold Rivka Lipszyc´s Diary 90,000 Triáda Publishing House Discovering Jiří Stein, a Poet 15,000 Unijazz Society in Brno Boskovice Ghetto – Remembering Shoa Victims 20,000 Unijazz Society in Brno Czech Cultural Personalities in the Context of Holocaust 20,000 Total 2,980,324

23 Overview of the Projects Awarded the Support in 2017 For 2017 the Board of Directors chose 41 projects that shall be awarded support in a total amount of CZK3,000,000. The programme is completely financed by the Ministry of Culture endowment benefits.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) ArtWay Dramatization of the novel by Arnošt Lustig – The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. 40,000 Association of Released Political Travelling Exhibition “Sights of Suffering, Death and Heroism” 60,000 Prisoners and Survivors Central Bohemian Museum in Stories of the “Tiché údolí“ Valley 25,000 Roztoky near Prague Charles University – Faculty of Arts Moses Woskin-Nahartabi 40,000 Committee for the Redress of Roma 2017 Remembrance Event in Lety 21,000 Holocaust Czech Union of Jewish Students Meeting of Roma and Jewish Youth 15,000 Dobříš Regional Musem Association History of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia 30,000 Děčín Jewish Community Publications for the 110 anniversary of the Děčín Synagogue 40,000 Historical Institute of the Academy Shoah versus Resistance, Resistance versus Shoah. Rebellion and struggle of Czechoslovak Jews during 60,000 of Sciences of the Czech Republic the Second World War. Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Processing of unique life stories from the declassified fund called “Jewish writings” from the archives 100,000 Regimes of the Security Service of Ukraine in Lvov, Ukraine Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Publishing of the book “The Jews in Gulag“ – memories of Czechoslovakia. Jews for internment in 60,000 Regimes Soviet labor camps Institute of the Terezín Initiative, Jom Ha Shoah / Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 60,000 community service International Christian Embassy We remember the heroism of Vrba and Wetzler 20,000 Jerusalem Jewish Monument Restoration Exhibition on the history of the Jews in the region of Peruc 40,000 Society of Peruc Jewish Museum in Prague Education at the Jewish Museum in Prague 300,000 Jewish Museum in Prague Jewish Memory in the 20 Century 100,000 Jewish Museum in Prague Pinkas´ Synagogue Transformation 350,000 KreBul Remembering Humanity 2017 40,000

24 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Lauder’s Kindergarten, Elementary Dorot 25,000 School and Secondary School at the Jewish Community in Prague Liberec Jewish Community Publication “Synagogue in Liberec“ 50,000 Living Memory Lost Roma and Roma Today – Roma Holocaust, Its Traces in the After-War Czechoslovakia and the Life 40,000 of Roma in the Czech Republic Masaryk University of Brno Holocaust survivors – second part 80,000 Museum of Romani Culture An act of piety on the site of the so-called Gypsy camp in Hodonín near Kunštát 24,000 Museum of Romani Culture Colloquium on the so-called Gypsy camp in Lety near Písek and a visit to the cultural monument in 40,000 Lety u Písku Olomouc Jewish Community Digital Database of Jewish Citizens of Olomouc 40,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Olomouc Synagogue (1897–1939) 50,000 OPŘISe Holocaust victims’ plaque and raising the profile of the topic of Holocaust in the village of Přistoupim 40,000 Ostrava Jewish Community The history of the Jewish nation with special respect to to the period and the consequences of the Shoah 40,000 P3K Publishing House Gruenbaum 60,000 Plzeň Jewish Community 2017 – Remembering January Transports 20,000 Prague Jewish Community Concert on the Occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Day of the Prevention of 20,000 Inhumane Crimes Romano Džaniben Teaching Roma History 2017 30,000 Society for languages History of Jews in Kutna Hora 25,000 Teplice Jewish Community Stolpersteine – Stones of the disappeared in Teplice – laying of 30 new stones 70,000 Terezín Initiative Institute A Schoolboy in the Times of War – exhibition opening 50,000 Terezín Initiative Institute Database of victims at Holocaust.cz website 150,000 Terezín Initiative – International Fight Against Anti-Semitism in Czech Schools 550,000 Terezín Association The Municipal Library of Kolín Children were looking for children. The fates of Jewish children in the region of Kolín during the Holocaust. 50,000 Threshold Book publication – “Irena´s Children“ 80,000 Unijazz Society in Brno Afternoon in the Jewish Ghetto II 40,000 Unijazz Society in Brno Czech Cultural Personalities in the Context of Holocaust II 25,000 Total 3,000,000

25 Renovation Programme

We support the restoration and maintenance of Jewish monuments throughout the Czech Republic. Our goal is to restore the mon- ument to its original state when the monument was built or, if this is not feasible, we then restore the monument to the state that would capture the maximum of the architectonic, artistic and artisanal elements. We finance restorations of synagogues, rabbinic houses and Jewish cemeteries. Lifting and repair of knocked down tombstones, restoration of valuable tombstones and reconstruction of fencing walls. Our financial means do not enable us to restore all tombstones, so we also sup- port cemetery documentation in order to have a digital image of its look saved for future generations. All projects are lead by professionals.

Overview of Granted Endowment Benefits in 2016 In 2016 we subsidized 21 projects with the subsidy from the Ministry of Culture totalling CZK12,848,559.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) An Association for the Renovation Renovation of synagogue in Podmokly 250,000 of a Synagogue in Podmokly Brno Jewish Community Reconstruction of Kuffner Tumb at the Jewish Cemetery in Břeclav 250,000 Brno Jewish Community Renovation of Ivančice Jewish cemetery wall 150,000 Czech Union of Jewish Students Cleaning and maintenance of the Jewish Cemetery in Bílina 9,911 Děčín Jewish Community Renovation of the entrance door to the synagogue 100,000 Federation of Jewish Communities Long-term Project of Gradual Reconstruction, Renovation and Maintenance of movable and immovable 7,358,648 in the Czech Republic Jewish Monuments Possessed by the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic Jewish Monument Restoration Specialized renovation of graves and tombstones at Jewish cemetery in Hřivčice 75,000 Society of Peruc Jewish Museum in Prague Restoration of Šimon Backofen (1714) tomb 80,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Reconstruction of tombstones at Karlovy Vary Jewish cemetery 130,000 Lauder Kindergarten, Elementary “Krajina“ (The Landscape) Project 25,000 School and Secondary School Affiliated to the Jewish Community in Prague

26 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Liberec Jewish Community Renovation of 9 graves and cemetery wall 100,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Maintenance of the Jewish Cemetery in Olomouc 80,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Renovation of tombstones at Frýdek-Místek cemetery 130,000 Plzeň Jewish Community 2016 – The Great Synagogue Roof Repair 500,000 Prague Jewish Community Reconstruction, restoration and conservation of Jewish monuments owned by Prague Jewish Community 3,170,000 Prague Jewish Community The restoration of a sarcophagus at an Old Jewish cemetery in Žižkov 60,000 TAMUS – An Archive and Museum Revitalization of Jewish cemetery in Měcholupy 40,000 Society of Tachov TAMUS – An Archive and Museum Revitalization of Jewish cemetery in Podbořany 40,000 Society of Tachov Teplice Jewish Community Jewish cemetery in Mašťov – cemetery renovation 50,000 Teplice Jewish Community Jewish cemetery in Most – erection of tombstones 50,000 Teplice Jewish Community Renovation of Jewish Cemeteries of Chomutov and Louny Region 200,000 Total 12,848,559

Overview of the Projects Awarded the Support in 2017 For the period of next year, the FHV Board of Directors selected a total of 20 projects that will be supported by a total amount of CZK13,000,000. The programme is completely financed by the Ministry of Culture endowment benefits.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Archeos Documentation of the part of the Jewish Cemetery in Boskovice 160,000 Brno Jewish Community Reconstruction of Kuffner Tumb at the Jewish Cemetery in Břeclav – Stage 3 300,000 Brno Jewish Community Repair of the roof of the ceremonial hall of the Jewish Cemetery in Mikulov – Stage 2 200,000 Czech Union of Jewish Students Cleaning of the Jewish Cemetery in Lomnička u Plesné 20,000 Děčín Jewish Community Restoration of the original painting of the entrance hall of the synagogue 150,000 Federation of Jewish Communities Long-term project of gradual reconstruction, restoration and preservation of Jewish monuments in the 7,750,000 in the Czech Republic Czech Republic – owned by the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic

27 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Jewish Monument Restoration Specialized renovation of graves and tombstones at Jewish cemetery in Hřivčice 2 90,000 Society of Peruc Jewish Museum in Prague Restoration of the Tomb of Joseph Solom Delmedig 64,800 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Reconstruction of tombstones at Karlovy Vary Jewish cemetery 150,000 Liberec Jewish Community Cemetery restoration 2017 70,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Maintenance of the Jewish Cemetery in Olomouc 64,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Jewish cultural heritage in the Moravian-Silesian Region 120,000 Prague Jewish Community Reconstruction, restoration and conservation of Jewish monuments owned by Prague Jewish 3,421,200 Community Prague Jewish Community The restoration of selected tombstones at an Old Jewish cemetery in Žižkov 40,000 Tamus – An Archive and Museum Revitalization of Jewish cemetery in Měcholupy 30,000 Society of Tachov Tamus – An Archive and Museum Revitalization of Jewish cemetery in Podbořany 30,000 Society of Tachov Teplice Jewish Community Renovation of the cemeteries in Široké Třebčice, Drahonice near Luby, Letov, Podbořany and Rohozec 200,000 and Čeradice Teplice Jewish Community Renovation of the Jewish Cemetery in Mašťov – 2017 50,000 Teplice Jewish Community The re-erection of 15 fallen tombstones at the Jewish Cemetery in Teplice 90,000 Total 13,000,000

28 Future Programme

We direct our support to projects that educate in Judaism, pass on Jewish tradition and develop Jewish communities. We finance the projects of prevention of anti-Semitism displays of behaviour, programmes of Jewish schools and kindergartens, lectures, seminars and workshops, monthly bulletins and Jewish organisations’ journals.

Overview of Granted Endowment Benefits in 2016 In 2016, we supported 38 projects in the total amount of CZK1,007,555 from the Ministry of Culture endowment benefit.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Art Museum Olomouc Days of Jewish Culture Olomouc 2016 30,000 Bejachad Bejachad Pre-School Facility 40,000 Bejt Elend – Private Jewish School Bejt Elend – Revival of Activities 12,500 Bejt Simcha Chinuch – Educational Programmes 15,000 Bejt Simcha Maskil – for all generations 25,000 Besamim MACHOL Czechia 2016 20,000 Boskovice Regional Museum Judaism – From Everydayness to Immortality 35,000 Brno Jewish Community The Path of Torah – Film 25,121 Cultural Centre of Třebíč Town Shamajim – Festival of Jewish Culture in Třebíč 20,000 Czech Union of Jewish Students JudaFest 2016 30,000 Days of Jerusalem Days of Jerusalem 25,000 Dobříš Regional Musem Association Gone Neighbours in Dobříš 20,000 Děčín Jewish Community Synagogue as the Venue for Lectures on Judaism 17,903 Jewish Liberal Union in the Czech Hebrew Classes – Jewish Traditions 30,000 Republic Jewish Museum in Prague Cultural programs at the Jewish Museum in Prague 50,000 Jewish Museum in Prague Jewish Education for Adults and Children 40,000

29 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Jewish Museum in Prague Judaica Bohemiae 30,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community Shabbat Meetings – Teaching Jewish Law 15,000 Kroměříž Regional Museum Edition “Jews and Moravia XXII“. 25,000 Lauder Kindergarten, Elementary Author Reader on Jewish Education 50,000 School and Secondary School Affiliated to the Jewish Community in Prague Lauder Kindergarten, Elementary Curriculum for Israeli Children in Lauder Schools 30,000 School and Secondary School Affiliated to the Jewish Community in Prague Liberec Jewish Community Educational and Cultural Events in Liberec Jewish Community 2016 38,991 Muzika Judaika MAŽIF V. (Small Jewish Festival) 10,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Olomouc Jewish Community Hebrew Classes 19,040 Organisation of Christians and Jews Revue of the Organisation of Christians and Jews 14,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Monograph: History of the Jewish Community in Ostrava 40,000 P3K Publishing House The Story of the Book “Ester“ 20,000 Plzeň Jewish Community Shana: 5776/7 30,000 Prague Jewish Community Jerusalem Synagogue – the pearl emerged from renovation / Jerusalem Synagogue Exhibition 40,000 Prague Jewish Community Jewish Newspaper “Obecní Noviny“ 20,000 Regional Museum in Mikulov Cultural and Educational Programmes in Upper Synagogue (Horní synagoga) 40,000 Sion – New Generation Days for Israel 15,000 Teplice Jewish Community Community Club of Teplice Jewish Community 20,000 Terezín Initiative Institute Jáchymka – The History of Pre-War Years 30,000 The D Association Neo-Nazism and denial of Holocaust – Interactive Educational Programme for Secondary Schools 20,000 (ongoing project) Ulpan Teplice Limud Ulpan Teplice 30,000 Ulpan Cycle of Lectures on Israeli Culture 15,000 Unijazz Boskovice 2016 – Festival for the Jewish Quarter 20,000 Total 1,007,555

30 Overview of the Projects Awarded the Support in 2017 For 2017 the Board of Directors chose 35 projects that shall be awarded support in a total amount of CZK1,106,000. The programme is completely financed by the Ministry of Culture endowment benefits.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Art Museum Olomouc Days of Jewish Culture Olomouc 2017 50,000 Bejt Simcha Chinuch II – Educational Programmes 22,000 Bejt Simcha Maskil – a multi-genre monthly 32,000 Brno Jewish Community DVD portraying Jewish monuments in South Moravia 30,000 Brno Jewish Community Exhibition of Wergeland in the Senate of the Czech Republic 10,000 Cultural Centre of Třebíč Town Shamajim – Festival of Jewish Culture in Třebíč 45,000 Czech Union of Jewish Students JudaFest 2017 50,000 Dobříš Regional Musem Association Jews in Dobříš (website) 15,000 Děčín Jewish Community Synagogue as the Venue for Lectures on Judaism 23,000 Hakoach Sports Club Hakoach 2017 Sports Games in Cologne 23,000 Hakoach Sports Club We still enjoy Viktorcup 24,000 Irene Prix Irene 2017 – Annual conference and publications 40,000 Jewish Liberal Union in the Hebrew Classes – Jewish Traditions 50,000 Czech Republic Jewish Museum in Prague Sunday workshops for parents and children 50,000 Karlovy Vary Jewish Community The Festival of Purim – Customs and Traditions 14,000 Kroměříž Regional Museum Publication of the book called “Jews and Moravia” XXIII 25,000 Lauder’s Kindergarten, Elementary Author’s textbooks of Jewish education 35,000 School and Grammar School at the Jewish Community in Prague Lauder’s Kindergarten, Elementary Bilingual Proceedings of student translations of Hebrew poetry 35,000 School and Grammar School at the Jewish Community in Prague Lauder’s Kindergarten, Elementary Teaching Hebrew to native speakers 40,000 School and Grammar School at the Jewish Community in Prague

31 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Liberec Jewish Community Educational Activities of Liberec Jewish Community 2017 35,000 Muzika Judaika MAŽIF VI. (Small Jewish Festival) 20,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Jews in Diaspora – Book of Photographs 40,000 Olomouc Jewish Community Olomouc Jewish Community Hebrew Classes 15,000 Organisation of Christians and Jews Revue of the Organisation of Christians and Jews 30,000 Ostrava Jewish Community Monograph: History of the Jewish Community in Ostrava 50,000 Plzeň Jewish Community 2017 – Šana 5777/8 30,000 Prague Jewish Community Day of Jewish Monuments 23,000 Prague Jewish Community Jewish Newspaper “Obecní Noviny“ 40,000 Regional Museum in Mikulov Cultural and Educational Programmes in Upper Synagogue (Horní synagoga) 30,000 Sion – New Generation Days for Israel 5,000 Teplice Jewish Community 2017 Community Club of Teplice Jewish Community 32,000 The D Association Neo-Nazism and denial of Holocaust – Interactive Educational Programme for Primary and Secondary 40,000 Schools (an ongoing project) Ulpan Teplice Teplice Cimes 2017 – Days of Jewish Culture 45,000 Unijazz – An Association for the Boskovice 2017 – Festival for the Jewish Quarter 28,000 Support of Cultural Activities “La škola“ “La škola“ – Music for children and parents 30,000 Total 1,106,000

32 Our Future Sub-Programme

We finance the programmes for young Jewish families in order to support the development of Jewish community within the Czech Republic. We also support projects aimed at the youngest members of Jewish community, their education in Jewish traditions and we strengthen their ties to the Community. The sub-programme was established in 2013 thanks to the exceptional donation from Prague Jewish Community. Since 2015 the programme has been supported by FHV on standard basis. In the second half of 2016 we administered an extraordinary call for proposals to support support cultural, educational and social activities in the territorial jurisdiction of the Jewish Community in Prague.

Overview of Granted Endowment Benefits in 2016 In 2016 we provided subsidies to 9 projects in a total amount of CZK402,400, the financial means for these projects came from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, and CZK90,000 to 3 projects from the donation of the Jewish community in Prague.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Bejt Simcha Atid Shelanu – Programmes for Children 30,000 Brno Jewish Community A Collection of Literature in Hebrew for Brno Jewish Community 20,000 Chinuch Holiday Workshops 50,000 Federation of Jewish Communities in Limmud CZ–SR 2016 100,000 the Czech Republic Lauder Kindergarten, Elementary We Celebrate Together… 55,000 School and Secondary School Affiliated to the Jewish Community in Prague Olomouc Jewish Community Jewish Traditions for Families with Children 22,400 Prague Jewish Community Summer Camps for Children (suburban and out-of-town) 50,000 Prague Jewish Community Three-generation Community Centre Hagibor 50,000 Teplice Jewish Community We Are Not Alone 25,000

33 Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK)

Additional call for proposals from the gift of the Jewish community in Prague Chinuch Shabbat project 30,000 Lauder Kindergarten, Elementary Traditional Teaching in Judaism 30,000 School and Secondary School Affiliated to the Jewish Community in Prague Prague Jewish Community We learn to teach 30,000 Total 492,400

Overview of the Projects Awarded the Support in 2017 For 2017 the Board of Directors selected 9 projects that shall be awarded a support amounting CZK394,000. The sub-programme is completely financed by the Ministry of Culture endowment benefits.

Beneficiary Project Name Granted Amount (CZK) Bejt Simcha Sharsheret 25,000 Brno Jewish Community Grandma, tell us how was life those days 10,000 Chinuch We pass the tradition on 50,000 Federation of Jewish Communities Limmud CZ–SR 2017 100,000 in the Czech Republic Lauder’s Kindergarten, Elementary We Celebrate Together… 64,000 School and Secondary School at the Jewish Community in Prague Olomouc Jewish Community Jewish Traditions for Families with Children 30,000 Prague Jewish Community Summer Camps for Children (suburban and out-of-town) 50,000 Prague Jewish Community Three-generation Community Centre Hagibor 50,000 Teplice Jewish Community Jewish holidays 5777 at the Jewish community in Teplice 15,000 Total 394,000

34 Projects of Our Own

We support the development of the Jewish community in the Czech Republic, not only financially but also materially, by organizing our own educational seminars and cultural programmes. We Educate

Seminars for workers in social services of the AMCHA-based medical unit in Israel, who takes care of the Since 2011, we have been organizing education seminars and meetings Shoah survivors and their families. He prepared an all-day seminar on of social workers of Jewish communities in the Czech Republic. Care “Emotional Load and Challenges in Assisting Professions in Working for survivors and their families is our top priority. The with Survivors of Shoah”. The successful and contri­ idea to meet has arisen from the need of social workers butive seminar was attended by 38 members of staff. to pass on experience and knowledge from the care for The seminar was held with the support of the Claims such specific clients as survivors of Shoah. The seminars Conference, the Federation of Jewish Communities in are prepared according to the needs of social workers. the Czech Republic and the Public Benefit Society to Over the years, we have made maximum use of experts support people affected by the Holocaust. in the care for survivors of Shoah who work in the Czech The second seminar was accredited and we prepared Republic, and so we have decided to extend the scope it together with the Social Department of the Jewish beyond the borders of our country and invite experts Community in Prague. The topic was “Introduction from abroad. In 2014, for the first time, we organized to the Specifics of Palliative Care for Jewish Clients”. a seminar with a foreign lecturer, psychologist Natan The lecturers were a psychotherapist PhDr. Zuzana Kellermann, a leading specialist for treatment of the Peterová, Rabbi David Peter and Chevra Kadisha Shoa trauma and leading expert in work with the first and second Chairman, Chaim Kočí. The seminar was attended by 19 participants. generations after the Holocaust. The participants were acquainted with the theme of dying and sickness In 2016, we organised two seminars, one with a foreign lecturer, an in Judaism, the role of Jewish organizations in helping the sick and Israeli psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Martin Auerbach, the director dying, aspects of the Jewish funeral, dealing with loss and mourning. 35 Mechanchim – Seminar for teachers and lecturers of Jewish educational institutions For the fourth year in a row, the Mechanchim Seminar has had a solid place among our educational programs. This is an annual meeting for teachers and trainers of Jewish educational organi- zations, during which teachers can listen to lectures by leading contemporary Jewish and community-based experts in education and community work, sharing their experiences, informing each other about their current projects, and building further cooperation.

The seminar was held in March 2016. In the first part, dedicated to teachers of Jewish schools and nurseries, Limmut UK founder Clive Lewton delivered a lecture on “How to Educate Whole Jewish Personalities”. The second lecturer was Ethel Barylka of the Ibn Gabirol Jewish School in Barcelona, who continued her lecture on “Judaism Outside the School Bench”. During the second day, Karina Sokolowska from JDC, co-founder of Warsaw Community Center JCC Warsaw, lectured on community work. A tradition- ally very important part of the seminar was a final discussion on the current situation of Jewish education in Bohemia and the presentation of the current community projects. The Mechanchim Seminar was financially supported by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Dutch Jew- ish Humanitarian Fund, the Jewish Community Foundation in Prague and the Jewish Museum in Prague. 36 We Meet

I am Jewish and I Prosper – Café Sessions We continued in the series of community cafés called “I am Jewish and I Prosper”, in which we regularly present interesting members of public that have Jewish roots. We try to show that the mosaic of the Jewish world is diverse, and that the Jewish tradition of a family of individuals can play a very different role in their personal or professional life. In 2016, we organized 2 cafés, both of them were held at Café Jedna in Prague. The presenter, Irenka Kalhousová, held interviews with Tomáš Töpfer and Milan Hein, and Halka Je Třešňáková and Milan Šteindler. Cafés have a steady attendance of 100 to 150 participants. In 2017 we will continue with the cafés project. We started to make videos of these seminars and upload Concert of Marta Kubišová for the FHV those videos to our YouTube channel. We dedicated our annual concert to our donors and partner organi­ The project was supported by the American Jewish Joint Distribution zations. Among the honoured guests we welcomed the Minister of Committee and the Jewish Community Foundation in Prague. Culture of the Czech Republic, Mr. Daniel Herman, and the Minister for Human Rights, Jiří Dienstbier. The evening was traditionally moderated by Ester Janečková. Marta Kubišová presented a range of her hits, of which, especially the last one, Prayer for Marta, reso- nated strongly among the participants long after the performance. During the evening, the FHV organised a collection for projects in the Survival Care programme and the visitors to the concert contributed with CZK13,800. The concert was held in cooperation with the Ungelt Theater. We would like to, once again, thank you all for your support, a lovely occasion to meet and we look forward to seeing you again next year. 37 We Remember

Together with the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech The commemorative event was accompanied with the exhibition Republic, we organized a traditional commemorative meeting on of the Carlsbad Jewish community “Stín na duši – Shadow on the the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day and Prevention of Soul”... the memories and the destinies of Holocaust witnesses from Crimes against Humanity, on 27 January 2016, in the Senate of Karlovy Vary and its surroundings, which we also co-financed. the Parliament of Czech Republic. The patron of the meeting was The event was attended by dozens of Shoah witnesses, 8 witnesses Mr. Milan Štěch, the President of the Senate of the Czech Parlia- directly from Karlovy Vary, Minister of Culture Daniel Herman, ment, who also addressed the guests. Holocaust witnesses, Asaf ambassadors, representatives of important cultural organizations Auerbach and Hanuš Hron, the President of the Committee for and 20 Lauder School students. The survivors were, for the first Compensation for the Roma Holocaust Čeněk Růžička, Minister of time, accompanied by their children and grandchildren. Labor and Social Affairs Michaela Marksová and Chairman of the FJC Petr Papoušek, who also read the greeting of the chairman of The meeting was held in cooperation with the Senate of the Czech the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, Jan Hamáček. Republic and with the support of the Jewish Community in Prague.

38 Grant of the Ministry of Culture

On December 18, 2014, the FHV signed an agreement with Summary of Costs Covered by the Ministry of Culture Czech Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic on a long term Endowment Benefit partnership on a project called “Provision of Endowment Benefits Received Benefit CZK20,000,000 in FHV Programmes – Renovation, Remembrance and Future”. Funds Used Endowment Benefits Based on an approved statement of subsidy in 2015, on April Renovation Programme CZK12,848,559 27, 2016, we received a decision of the Ministry of Culture on Remembrance Programme CZK2,980,324 a provision of a non-investment subsidy from the state budget Future Programme and Sub-Programme Our Future CZK1,409,955 amounting CZK20 million for the calendar year 2016. Total CZK17,238,838 FHV Operational Costs Consumption of Material CZK80,000 We funded all projects in the Renovation, Reminder, and Future Services (water, gas, electricity) CZK20,000 programs (including the sub-programme Our Future). Out of the Travel Expenses CZK20,000 granted CZK20 million we did not manage to use CZK261,162.42. Office Space Rental Costs CZK180,000 In total, there were 100 projects financed with the Ministry of Cul- Phone, Internet Costs CZK28,000 ture grant. The funds also covered the FHV administrative costs. Postage Fees CZK12,000 Graphic Studio and Printing and Publishing Services CZK90,000 Translations CZK20,000 Salaries of Employees CZK1,480,000 Subcontractors Remuneration CZK65,000 Health Insurance and Social Security Costs CZK505,000 Total CZK2,500,000

2016 Ministry of Culture Endowment Benefit CZK19,738,838

Payback of the Unused Funds (total) CZK261,162

39 The entire subsidy was audited by 22HLAV s.r.o. auditing company We submitted the final report and the bill to the Ministry of Culture on 31 January 2017. Auditor´s Report was submitted to the Ministry of Culture on February 15, 2017.

We would like to thank the Ministry of Culture for their support and cooperation.

40 Financial Report

The FHV financial report was assessed for a period from January 1 to December 31, 2016.

In 2000, the FHV received an endowment benefit amounting In 2016, in the 15 call for proposals, a total granted amount was CZK300 million from the former State Property Fund, today’s Min- CZK21,832,000. Of which 17,239,000 was financed by the sub- istry of Finance of the Czech Republic. These financial means are sidy of the Ministry of Culture, CZK4,333,000 was financed by distributed in harmony with the stated grant rules on yearly basis. the FHV’s own means. The remaining CZK260,000 was funded A large proportion of these financial means has been distributed by a donation from the Public Benefit Society to support people as part of the endowment benefits, the remaining CZK52 million affected by Holocaust, the Public Collection and the gift of the is invested in shares. Part of the funds is administered by ČSOB Jewish Community in Prague. Asset Management, second part is managed by Conseq Investment Management, a.s. The FHV administration costs in 2016 amounted to CZK3,572,000 On January 29, 2014 the contract on the transfer and use of financial Out of this sum CZK850,000 was paid by NFOH from its own means between FHV and the Ministry of Finance of the Czech funds, CZK2,500,000 from the subsidy of the Ministry of Culture Republic was terminated, all of the unused funds remained in the of the Czech Republic and CZK222,000 was paid from other administration of FHV; the funds will further be administered external sources. as FHV own funds.

41 Use of FHV’s own funds within the last 3 years (in thousands of CZK) Year Net Income Administration Costs Endowment Benefits The Remaining Financial Means 69,032 2014 1,939 2,733 12,870 55,368 2015 2,289 1,098 622 55,937 2016 1,160 850 4,333 51,914

Total of all FHV Financial Resources (in thousands of CZK) Total Balance Resources Means used for the Initial Means Means used of Financial Gained Renovation, Future, Unused Financial Source Balance of Used for in the Care Means at the Throughout and Reminder resources Resources Administration programme End of the the Year programmes Year Grants and Donations 354 400 222 138 90 304 (excluding the Public collection) Donations Acquired through 77 78 104 51 Public Collection The Ministry of Culture of the 133 20,000 2,500 17,239 241 153* Czech Republic Endowment Benefit State Property Fund 55,937 1,160 850 4,333 51,914 *Unused subsidy funds, which will be returned to the account of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic in January 2017

42 Balance as of December 31, 2016 in thousands of CZK ASSETS LIABILITIES Fixed Assets FHV Own Sources Individual Movables and their Collections 51 FHV Own Capital 1 Depreciations to Individual Movables and their Collections –51 Funds 52,030 Other Financial Fixed Assets 49,411 Valuation Differences from Revaluation of Property and Liabilities 280 Total Fixed Assets 49,411 Account of Trading in Approval Procedure 239 Total Own Capital 52,550 Current Assets Other Liabilities 154 Not Own Capital Petty Cash Fund 7 Contractors 18 Valuables 20 Employees 102 Bank Accounts 3,332 Other Liabilities to Employees 7 Expected Costs 1 Liabilities to SZ and ZP institutions 53 Expected Income 33 Other direct taxes 10 Total Current Assets 3,547 Commitments to the state budget 153 Expected Expenses 65 Total Assets 52,958 Total Not Own Capital 408

Total Liabilities 52,958

43 Profit and Loss Statement to December 31, 2016 in thousands of CZK Income Costs Income from Sale of Services 50 Consumption of Material and Energy 121 Other Revenues 228 Services (travel expenses, representation costs, repairs, other services) 1,078 Income from the Sales of Stocks and Shares 61,320 Total Personnel Costs 2,251 Received Donations (gifts) 129 Other Costs 122 Operating Subsidies 2,500 Stocks and Shares Sold 60,416 Total Income 64,227 Total Costs 63,988

Trading Income 239

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

44 Auditor’s Statement

45 The Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board

In 2016, the Board of Director and Supervisory In 2000, he established, and later also managed, Honorary Chairman Board of the FHV met for a joint meeting for three years, an internet publishing portal, Prof. Ing. Felix Kolmer, DrSc. five times. The Board of Directors also voted Economia Online. Between 2003 and 2009 A graduate of the Faculty in a form of per rollam vote. The Supervisory he was a Director-General and the Chairman of Electrical Engineering Board had six independent meetings. of Board of Directors of Economia Publishing. of the Czech Technical The supervisory board members actively From 2007–2009, he also worked as a Chairman University in Prague and participate at the FHV events, they are at of the Board of Directors of Ecopress Publishing. the Czech Technical Uni- hand to help the FHV administration, and Between 2011 and 2012 he worked as a director versity with a major in they work for free. of Slovak publishing house “Spoločnosť 7 Plus” Physics and Acoustics. Professor Kolmer is in Bratislava. In 2013 he founded a tablet weekly a survivor of the concentration camps in Terezín, Board of Directors called “Dotyk”. From 1992-2011 he was a member Auschwitz and Friedland. From 1949 till 1991, of Board of Directors and Vice-President of the he worked in The Research Institute of Sound, The Chairman World Association of Newspapers seated in Paris. Picture and Speaker Technology in Prague as Ing. Michal Klíma In 2003, he bought a decaying building of the a scientist, and later on as the Head of the General manag- former synagogue in Hartmanice na Šumavě, Acoustics Department, Scientific Vice-Director, er and Chairperson of established a civic association that reconstructed and Director of the Institute. After his retirement, VLTAVA LABE MEDIA the synagogue, and runs a monument that he worked as an advisor to the Director of the Publishing House. reminds us of the co-existence of Czechs, Institute. Since 1962, he has collaborated with Graduated from Czech Germans and Jews in the Šumava region. He the Czech Technical University, later with the Technical University in 1984. publishes political commentaries and articles Film and TV School of the Academy of Per- Till 1989, he worked as a computer programmer. mostly focusing on the problems of the media forming Arts as a teacher of Acoustics, and since From 1990 to 1997 he was the head of Lidové in newspapers and magazines. Occasionally, 1982, with the academic title of Professor. He Noviny Publishing. Between 1998–2000 he worked he gives lectures in the Czech Republic and is the author of many publications and gives as a Director-General of Economia Publishing. abroad. He is married with two adult children. lectures all over the world. Lately, he has been 46 giving lectures on Czech-German relations Prostějov, constructing Farmakon. Later, after with the management and development of during WWII, and on the life in the concen- a period of personal hardships, he studied Czech immovable property owned by the Jewish tration camps, to schools and and Christian-Jew- and English at the Faculty of Arts at Palacký community in Prague. Between 2009 and 2015 ish associations in Germany. He holds several University in Olomouc. Till 1990, he taught at he was the chairman of the NFOH's board. He state awards and is an honourable member of the Secondary School of Economics in Olomouc, is very proud of his grand children. several scientific societies in the Czech Repub- and from 1990, he worked as the Chancellor of lic and abroad. Currently, Professor Kolmer is Palacký University, simultaneously teaching the JUDr. Hana Frištenská a Vice-President of the Internationales Auschwitz history of theatre at the Faculty of Arts, for She is a lawyer. Between Komitee, vice-chairman of the Czech Auschwitz a short period of time. From 2008 to 2010, he 1977 and 1991 she worked Committee, is a member of the Board of the worked as a pensioner for the Communication as a curator and work Bundesverband für Information und Beratung Department of Palacký University. Currently, methodology specialist der NS-Verfolgten in Cologne, Germany and he is a Vice-Chairman of Olomouc Jewish with Roma in Prague. a member of the Board of the Terezín Initiative, Community and, since 2015, has been working Since 1991 she worked the Board of Directors of the Czech Association as an editor of its monthly newspaper “Chajejnu”. in the Department for Human Rights of for the Victims of Nazism, the Council of the Dr.Hrbek is married and has two sons, one the Czechoslovak Government. Since 1993 Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech grandson and two granddaughters. she was the director of the Board for Mi- Republic and a member of the Czech-German norities of the Czechoslovak Government. Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Members Between 1996 and 2005 she was the direc- Czech Republic and Germany. Ing. Michal Borges tor of the office of the Board for NGOs of Secretary Gen- the Czech government. Between 2005–2009 Vice-Chairman eral of the Prague Jewish she worked as the vice-chair of the Fund PhDr. Tomáš Hrbek Community. At the begin- for the Development of Civic Society. Since A graduate of an ning of the 90s, he active- 2010 she has, again, been working as a Sec- 11-year Secondary School ly participated in the pro- retary of The Government Council for in Olomouc, After his grad- cess of returning the Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organisa- uation exams he worked immovable property back to the Jewish com- tions seated at the Office of The Government. for Pozemní Stavby Con- munities. From 1992 to the beginning of 2006, She is an author of several essays on the struction Company in he was in charge of Matana, a .s ., which deals field of NGO sector or multiculturalism. 47 PhDr. Taťjana Pelíšková and analytical studies mainly on the Isra­eli- Department of Extra Judicial Rehabilitations A graduate of the Palestinian conflict and the political situation, with special focus on restitutions. Since 2000, Faculty of Arts at Masaryk religion, culture and social issues in Israel she has been working in a special analytical University in Brno, with (Respekt, Mladá Fronta, Lidove Noviny). commission of the Ministry of Finance fo- a major in Ethnology and She worked also for American press (Chica- cusing on privatization. In 2010–2014, she the History of Art. She go Tribune, The Boston Globe, ABC News). was the head of the Department for Approv- has worked in the Czech She is a co-author on a documentary called ing Depositing with National Property. Since Radio music section, further as the Brno Afghani Shangri La (she collaborated with May 1, 2014 she has been working as a di- Jewish Community Secretary. Currently, she Petra Procházková from Epicentrum Agen- rector of the State Property Management works in the field of public relations in a pri- cy). She later worked as an advisor at the Section. She is a lecturer on issues of treatment vate company. She is the representative of Department of Middle East and Africa of and management of state property. She has the Brno Jewish Community in the Feder- the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since been collaborating with the FHV on external ation of Jewish Communities in the Czech 2005 she works as an interpretor (English basis since 2004, and since 2008 she has been Republic. Dr. Pelíšková is married and has and Hebrew). She speaks English, Hebrew, a member of the Board of Directors. two adult sons and two grandchildren. Czech and German. Ing. Zdeněk Novák Michaela Rozov, M.Sc. JUDr. Dagmar Tyšerová Since April 2015, she has She is a gradu- A lawyer of the Property been working as the State ate of the Hebrew Uni- Rights Department of Secretary of the Czech versity in Jerusalem (po- the Ministry of Finance Ministry of Culture. He litical science, modern of the Czech Republic, is a graduate of Mendel Jewish history). Her MA and a graduate of the University in Brno and thesis from Hebrew Uni- Faculty of Law at Charles a graduate of a post-graduate programme versity was awarded with the Erich Kulka University in Prague. She worked as a lawyer of care for historic sights at the Faculty of Price (excellent history of Holocaust study). in the Foreign Currency Section of the Office Architecture at the Czech Technical Uni- She also graduated from Columbia Univer- for Property and Foreign Currency Admin- versity in Prague. He is a specialist in the sity of New York (journalism). Until 2003 istration. From 1991 to 2008, she worked at field of monument protection, care for she worked as a journalist writing news reports the Ministry of Finance as a Manager of the cultural heritage, cultural public affairs and 48 the history of garden and landscape archi- the Ministry of Finance in the Section of of MIPEBO, a.s., and later Chaver s.r.o. In tecture. He has published several scientific Privatization of State Property, Ecological 2007, he completed his studies focusing on essays and lectures on these topics. His Damages Department. For the Ministry of PR and marketing of non-profit organizations. expertise in landscape architecture allows Finance, he lead a contractual agenda and Currently he is a Vice-Chairman of the him a wider perception of questions asso- coordinated the collaboration of selected Federation of Jewish Communities in the ciated with the care for natural and cultur- foundations and endowment funds as an Czech Republic and a Vice-Chairman of al heritage on a nationwide level. Among assignor of endowment benefits of the Foun- the Board of Directors of the Teplice Jewish other things, he worked as a specialist in dation Investment Fund. He now works as Community and Chairman of ZO ČSBS the Brno Monument Institute, later as his a lawyer at the Ministry of Agriculture in Teplice. He is a lecturer for the Ministry of director, from 1998 to 2005 he was Depu- Economics and Information Technology Education teaching on the Holocaust. ty Minister of Culture, later General Di- Section – Sub-Section of Departmental rector of the National Monument Institute Organisations. He has been collaborating Jiří Süss and Director of Matana, as Since 2008 he with the FHV since the first year of its ex- Graduate of a Secondary has been teaching at the University of istence. Since July 1, 2014 he has been School of Economics – Economics in Prague and between 2010–2012 a member of the Supervisory Board, and he focus on general eco- he was the General Director of the Nation- currently chairs it. He has an adult daughter nomics, and later, while al Agricultural Museum in Prague. and two grandchildren. working, he focused on the customs procedures Supervisory Board Members and later he attended a school for basketball Michael Lichtenstein coaches. Currently, he works as a freelanc- The Chairman Graduate of a Secondary er. He is a graduate of the University Pro- JUDr. Jaroslav Niklas, Ph.D., MBA School of Chemistry, gramme for Seniors in the field of Man and Graduated at the Faculty further the Institute of His Region. of Law at Charles Uni- the Ministry of Industry versity in Prague. From and Trade, focusing on 1991, he worked as a law- the management and yer at the State Property economics of industry. Since 1990, he has Fund and, from 2006, at been in the position of Managing Director 49 Employees

Mgr. Marta Malá, Th.D. Mgr. Andrea Fictumova Bc. Ester Karasová Mgr. Tereza Váňová Kateřina Šichmanová Director Coordinator of Care, Financial manager Subject specialist Administrative worker Remembrance, Future Graduated at Charles Uni- programmes Since 2004, she has been A graduate of MA pro- She is a graduate of Prague versity, the Institute of working in non-profit or- gramme in Hebrew and Lauder schools. She wrote Jewish Studies. Marta has She holds an MA in His- ganizations as an accountant, Jewish Studies at Oxford a book on the history of three children: Miriam, torical Sociology from the budget specialist, grant and University. She has been Jewish orphanage in Bel- David and Matyáš. She has Faculty of Humanities at donation administrator. She working for the FHV since gická Street. She has been been working for the FHV Charles University. She devotes most of her free time 2010. At the same time, she studying her sixth year at since 2002, and since 2006 has three sons – Ondřej, to her family. Occasionally works as a teacher of Judaism the Faculty of Law of Prague she has been its executive Martin and Petr. She has she helps in organisations in Lauder School of Prague. Charles University, and for director. been working for FHV providing direct care. She has She has two daughters: about the same period of since 2003. a daughter called Eliška and Johanka and Rozárka. time she has been employed two sons called Jakub and by the FHV. In June 2015, Our Volunteers Matěj. She has been working she gave birth to her son, We wish to thank to all our volunteers for their work as a financial manager in Jonatan. She is currently with organising our own projects: FHV since December 2012. on maternity leave. Alena Altmanová, Tomáš Nývlt and Petr Šraier 50 Our Donors

We would like to thank to all donors who support our activities and aims, especially the care for Shoah survivors. We are thankful for all donations sent to our public collection account. We also thank to donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Thank you for your financial support: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Claims Conference, Conseq Investment, ČSOB Asset Management, Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Jewish Community Foundation in Prague, the Public Benefit Society for the Support of People Affected by the Holocaust, the Jewish Community in Prague.

We thank to our colleagues and partner organisation for their cooperation: Café Jedna, Ungelt Theater, Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Fictum Jiří, Hein Milan, Izcovich Mario, Janečková Ester, Kalhousová Irena, King Solomon Restaurant, Šnajdrová Dita, Jewish Community in Prague, Jewish Museum in Prague

Donations from the Public Collection granted in the 15 grant call in 2016 Donor Amount (in CZK) Used for Anonymous Donor 1,445 Büchler Tomáš 5,000 Büchler Veronika 5,000 Complex Home Care Ezra – Social and Health Care with Special Attention Franz Kafka Centre 500 to the Needs of Holocaust Survivors Kolaříková Jitka 600 Kubištová Míla 20,000 Bílek Pavel 2,000 Dostál Michal 10,000 Support of Social Care for Jewish Community Members Kubištová Míla 20,000

51 Donor Amount (in CZK) Used for Anonymous Donor 2,155 Büchler Tomáš 6,000 Danielová Denisa 2,260 Fábry David 2,000 King David Hotel 1,200 Social Activation of the First and Second Generation Kubištová Míla 20,000 of Olomouc Jewish Community Matfoulová Marcela 2,339 Pavlát Leo 2,500 Růžička Čeněk 500 Zezulová Anna 1,200 Total 104,699

Donations from the Public Collection to be distributed in the 16 grant call in 2017 Donor Amount (in CZK) Used for Kubištová Míla 20,000 Büchler Tomáš 7,000 Büchlerová Veronika 3,000 FHV Grant Endowment Benefits Jelínková Eva 600 Tomáš Hlaváček 10,000 Michal Dostál 10,000 Total 50,600

52 Other donations used in 2016 Donor Amount (in CZK) Used for 35,172 Seminar for Jewish Educators American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 10,822 I am Jewish and I Prosper Café Sessions Conseq Investment 33,790 FHV Benefit Concert 2016 ČSOB Asset Management 47,889 FHV Benefit Concert 2016 Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund 56,816 Seminar for Jewish Educators Fictum Jiří 1,500 Other Services 10,000 Seminar for Jewish Educators Foundation of Prague Jewish Community 10,000 I am Jewish and I Prosper Café Sessions Public Benefit Society for the Support of People Affected by the 15,000 Seminar for social workers Holocaust Gifts on the occasion of organizing an educational seminar 1,300 FHV Benefit Concert 2016

The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic Endowment Benefit 19,739,137 Operational Costs, FHV Endowment Benefits

Prague Jewish Community 90,000 Special Call for Proposals: Our Future – Sub-Programme Public Benefit Society for the Support of People Affected by the 52,500 Care for the Holocaust Survivors II Holocaust 52,500 “Tikvah” Home Care Agency – Social Services Provider Donations on the occasion of FHV Benefit Concert in 2015 33,152 Social Activation of the First and Second Generation of Olomouc Jewish Community Total 20,189,577

53 Other donations that shall be used in 2017 Donor Amount (in CZK) Used for ČSOB Asset Management 105,084 FHV Own Projects Conseq Investment 50,000 FHV Own Projects Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund 42,159 FHV Own Projects Prague Jewish Community 10,000 FHV Own Projects

Prague Jewish Community 83,634 FHV Grant Endowments Donations on the occasion of FHV Benefit Concert in 2015 13,800 FHV Grant Endowments Total 304,677

Become our donor, every little helps.

Public Collection to Support the CARE Programme Projects:

UniCredit Bank 2113642498/2700 BIC: BACX CZ PP IBAN: CZ11 2700 0000 0021 1364 2498

54 Basic Data

Foundation for Holocaust Victims

Official Address: Contact e-mail: Maiselova 250/18 110 00, Prague 1, [email protected] Czech Republic Website: Contact Address, our office: www.fondholocaust.cz/en Legerova 22/1854, 120 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic Public Collection Account: Contacts: UniCredit Bank Marta Malá, Th.D.,director and coordinator of Programmes 2113642498/2700 Renovation and Our Future BIC: BACX CZ PP [email protected], (+420) 224 261 615 IBAN: CZ11 2700 0000 0021 1364 2498

Mgr. Andrea Fictumová, coordinator of Programmes TAX Code No: Care, Remembrance and Future 26189381 [email protected], (+420) 224 261 573 Entry in the Foundation Register: Bc. Ester Karasová, financial manager Managed by the Regional Commercial Court in Prague, [email protected], (+420) 224 261 573 Section N, Entry 344, 31 July 2000

Mgr. Tereza Gafna Váňová, subject specialist [email protected]

55 © 2017 Foundation for Holocaust Victims Graphics and Publishing: Jiri Fictum | Translation: Martin Jelinek | Pictures: Jindrich Buxbaum, Petr Balajka, Karel Cudlin Printed by: MH Tisk s.r.o.