The West Berlin Jewish Community Center announced today that 500 exhibits from the Jewish Museum in Prague will be shown at an exhibition at the center opening on September 1.
The display involves the first grant of permission by a Communist country since the war for a showing of exhibits outside the Communist zones. From the many thousands of Jewish religious items at the old Prague Synagogue, the director of the center, Itzhak Pruschnowski, has selected 500 items, representing Jewish culture in Prague and Bohemia over a 1,000-year period. The collection survived the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia only because Hitler intended to establish a “Museum of Liquidated Races.”
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