Ostrava Jewish Community collection
Extent and Medium
1,670 digital images, JPEG and PDF
Creator(s)
- Ostrava Group at Kingston Synagogue
- Leo Pavlát
Archival History
Ostrava Group at Kingston Synagogue
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Ostrava Group at Kingston Synagogue, UK. Since 2006, the Ostrava Group at the Kingston Synagogue in South West London developed a large documentation project: the Group has collected thousands of photos, documents, letters, interviews and of other material. More than that: it created a virtual community of former Jewish Ostravaks.This collection was organized, catalogued, digitized and published by the Jewish Museum Prague. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Program Division in July 2014.
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials from 83 families throughout the world originating from Ostrava, including: family photographs, as well as images of pre-war Ostrava, including synagogues and businesses, personal papers such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, school records, newspaper clippings, business advertisements, letters, as well as memoirs, genealogy charts, and testimonies documenting pre-war Jewish life in Ostrava, as well as experiences during the war, and in the postwar period, in many cases to the present: including information and photographs of the survivor's families, trips to Ostrava, and commemoration of the Holocaust in Ostrava. Included is a series of correspondence of the Goldberg family to brothers Oskar, Moses (Max) and Norbert (Bubik, Bertie) who, after the occupation of Bohemia, made their way through Poland to the United Kingdom, and which provides a glimpse of the communication of a family divided by the Holocaust. While the brothers managed to escape and establish themselves abroad, their mother and sisters with children stayed behind in the occupied “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia“. Their father lived with his parents in the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz). They were all deported and murdered later.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the digital files.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ostrava Group at Kingston Synagogue
People
- Goldberg family.
Subjects
- Jews--Czech Republic--Ostrava-History.
- Ostrava (Czech Republic)--Ethnic relations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Ostrava.
- World War, 1939-1945--Czech Republic--Ostrava.
- Ostrava (Czech Republic)--Sources.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Ostrava--Genealogy.
Genre
- Letters.
- Memoirs.
- Photographs.
- Correspondence.
- Document