- National
- Czech & Slovak
- Museum & Library
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Past Exhibits
- The Tragedy of Slovak Jews
- November 4, 2005 to February 26, 2006
- For the first time since the fall of communism in 1989 and the formation of the Slovak Republic in 1993, the creation and course of the holocaust in Slovakia is presented in an exhibition entitled The Tragedy of Slovak Jews. The exhibition is on display at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from November 4, 2005 to February 26, 2006.
- This is the first exhibition in the United States of this moving story. The Tragedy of Slovak Jews has been on display since 2002 at the Auschwitz – Birkenau State Museum in Auschwitz, Poland. The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is partnering with the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, which originally researched and prepared the exhibit.
- In 1939, Hitler’s army entered and occupied all of Czechoslovakia. The country was divided into two separate nations, The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (controlled solely by the Nazis) and an "independent" Slovak. Over the next six years, Slovakia deported nearly 60,000 Slovak Jews to concentration camps, where most of them were murdered as part of Hitler’s "final solution." In total, mearly 80,000 Slovak Jews were lost during the Holocaust.
- The exhibition focuses on the key milestones of the Slovak story including the acceptance of the Jewish Codex in 1941, a series of laws and regulations that stripped Slovakia's Jews of their civil rights and means of economic survival. The exhibit chronicles the first wave of deportations (March-October 1942), the origin and activity of working and prison camps, the second wave of deportations in 1944, the resistance movement, participation in the Slovak National Uprising, and the reprisals of the Nazis in 1944 – 1945.
- The exhibition runs from November 4, 2005 to February 26, 2006.
For more information about programs related to this exhibit, go here.
Special Exhibitions are funded by gifts to the NCSML Temporary Exhibition Program. For a list of sponsors for The Tragedy of Slovak Jews, go here.
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Jewish girl from Slovakia, name unknown, deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Bratislava on March 28, 1942. Given number 2731. Her subsequent fate is unknown |
- Books in the Museum Store Relating to the Holocaust
- The Tragedy of Slovak Jews, proceedings of the International Symposium on the Slovak Jews $22.00PB
- Music in Terezin 1941-1945 by Joza Karas $20.00PB
- NEŠARIM Child Survivors of Terezin by Thelma Gruenbaum $22.50PB
- Bending Spines The Propaganda of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic by Randall L. Bytwerk $24.95PB
- Where She Came From; A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History by Helen Epstein $19.00PB
- A History of the Holocaust by Saul S. Frideman $30.95PB
- Old Bohemian and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries by Petr Ehl, Arno Parík, and Jirí Fiedler $22.00HB
- Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály $16.00PB
- Holocaust Memoir Digest: A Digest of Published Survivor Memoirs with Study Guide and Maps Vol. II compiled and edited by Esther Goldberg $18.95PB
- Holocaust Memoir Digest: A Digest of Published Survivor Memoirs with Study Guide and Maps Vol. I compiled and edited by Esther Goldberg $15.95PB
- War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen $20.00PB
- Teaching and Studying the Holocaust Edited by Samuel Totten and Stephen Feinberg $27.99PB
- Good Beyond Evil: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Eva Gossman $23.50PB
- Salo’s Song: A Jewish Wartime Romance by Barbara Exer $28.50PB
- Theresienstadt: Hitler’s Gift to the Jews by Norbert Troller $24.95HB
- Nicholas Winston and the Rescued Generation: The Story of Britain’s Schindler by Muriel Emanuel and Vera Gissing $18.95PB
- How Mankind Committed the Ultimate Infamy at Auschwitz by Laurence Rees $30.00HB
- Holocaust Journey by Martin Gilbert $24.95PB
- Remembering Belsen: Eyewitnesses Record the Liberation by Ben Flanagan and Donald Bloxham $30.00PB
- Witness to a Jewish Century: Photographs and Life Histories from Central and Eastern Europe PB
- Karel Capek: In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance and Trust by Bohuslava R. Bradbrook $39.50HB
- Special Exhibit - In the Laska Gallery
- Silent Stones: Jewish Cemeteries in Bohemia and Moravia
- September 25, 2005 to February 12, 2006
- The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is pleased to present a new, special exhibition entitled Silent Stones: Jewish Cemeteries in Bohemia and Moravia on Sunday, September 25. The exhibition documents the hauntingly beautiful Jewish cemeteries in Bohemia and Moravia. Photographer Lisa Feder’s thirty-three prints show headstones from a variety of cemeteries and includes information about burial customs, the story of the Jewish community in the Czech lands, and efforts to preserve these sacred sites. The exhibit closes February 12, 2006.
Special exhibits are funded by gifts used to support the NCSML's exhibits. Go to the Exhibit Support page for more information.
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- The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
- 30 - 16th Avenue SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404-5904
- Phone: 319-362-8500 · Fax: 319-363-2209
- This page was updated February 28, 2006