Main Documentation Team
Zuzana Duchková is a cultural historian and anthropologist at the Department of Art Education of the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, where, in addition to teaching art history and architecture, she is a curator of contemporary art projects and creates haptic models for the blind and visually impaired. Her professional interests include issues of artistic exile in the first half of the 20th century with a focus on artists of Jewish origin, as well as urban history. She has published her research in a number of academic monographs, journals and collections, and is author of the recent monograph, Nová existence: Českoslovenští a němečtí protihitlerovští výtvarníci v britském exilu (1933–1945) (New Life: Czechoslovak and German Anti-Nazi Artists in British Exile (1933–1945).
Jakub Hauser is an art historian and curator of the art collections at the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague, where he has taken part in a number of exhibitions, including František Bidlo – Homo politicus and The Experience of Exile. He is also one of the curators of the permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Literature. In 2021, he received the Josef Krása Award of the Czech Association of Art Historians for his book, Sans retour: Výtvarníci ruské emigrace v meziválečné Praze (Sans retour: Russian Émigré Artists in Interwar Prague). He is co-editor of the publication, Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe: Imagery of Hatred.
Aleš Homola is a historian at the National Heritage Institute in Brno, where he is head of the department of records, documentation and information systems. He took part in a Czech Ministry of Culture NAKI grant project, The Identification and Interpretation of the Origin, Shape and Transformation of the Baroque Cultural Landscape of the South Moravian Borderlands. He specializes in research into the formation of middleclass residential zones after World War I in relation to modern Czech identity, and questions around the significance of social, national and other ideological manifestations for the shape of buildings and urban enclaves.
Eva Janáčová is an art historian at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Jewish art, visual manifestations of anti-Judaism and antisemitism, and the representation of the Holocaust in the visual arts. She has initiated and served as the principal investigator for two research grants. She has contributed as an author and editor to several scholarly publications, such as Images of Malice: Visual Manifestations of Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in the Bohemian Lands and Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe. In addition to her research, she lectures at Charles University in Prague.
Marek Jandák is a historian at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences specializing in the history of the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, nationalism, and humanitarian work. In previous years, he was a coordinator on the database, Roma and Sinti Testimonies: World War II through the eyes of Roma and Sinti from the Czech lands and Slovakia. In his dissertation, A Nation State for Multiple Nations? Creation of Transcaucasian Federation, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in 1918, he focused on a comparative history of nationalism in Central Europe, the Balkan Peninsula, and the South Caucasus. He is the author of an award-winning monograph on the Armenian Genocide.
Anna Míšková is a historian at the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno. Her research focuses on the Holocaust of Roma and Sinti in the Czech lands. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Czech delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. In 2023, she chaired the Commission on the Genocide of Roma. She was part of the working group responsible for the architectural and landscape design competition for the Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Lety u Písku and is co-author of the memorial's interior and exterior exhibitions.
Jana Oberreiterová is an art historian specializing in the history of architecture of the 20th and 21st century, architectural conservation, and the history of the south Moravian region, currently based at the regional office of the National Heritage Institute in Brno. As an author, she has contributed to a number of publications focused on architecture between the wars in South Moravia, including the monograph, Znojmo 1918–2020: Architektonické proměny (Znojmo 1918–2020: Architectural Transformations), which received an award in the national competition of museums, Gloria musaealis, in 2021.
Daniel Polakovič is a historian at the Jewish Museum in Prague. He specializes in archival and epigraphical material related to the history of Jewish settlements in the Bohemian lands, and deals especially with the documentation of Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic. He has co-authored several publications, such as Beth Olam: The Jewish Cemeteries in South Bohemia, Židovský hřbitov v Brandýse nad Labem (The Jewish Cemetery in Brandýs nad Labem) and Maharal 1525–1609: Cesta života (Maharal 1525–1609: Path of Life). He has also published a number of studies and articles on the history of the Jews in the Bohemian lands and in Central Europe.
Blanka Soukupová is an ethnologist and historian at both Charles University and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. She specializes in research into the Central European township, the issue of national and minority identities, nationalism, and the history of the field of ethnology from the mid-19th century to the present day. She has published around thirty books as author or editor and around two hundred studies in academic monographs, journals and collections. Among her most recent publications are Židé v českých zemích po šoa: Identita poraněné paměti a Identita intenzivní naděje (Jews in the Czech Lands after the Shoah: The Identity of Wounded Memory) and Identita intenzivní naděje: Čeští Židé v první Československé republice (The Identity of Intense Hope: Czech Jews in the First Czechoslovak Republic).
Iva Steinová is a historian at the company Matana, which looks after property and Jewish cemeteries owned by the Jewish Community of Prague and the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic. She specializes in the documentation of Jewish cemeteries and their tombstones as well as in archival searches connected with Jewish cemeteries and those buried there. She has published several books, including, Matzeva: The Jewish Tombstone and the Symbolism of Its Decoration in the Light of Tradition, and Beth Olam: The Jewish Cemeteries in South Bohemia.
Petra Šternová heads the documentation department at the Liberec office of the National Heritage Institute. Her long-term academic interest and research has been concerned with modern architecture, mainly of the first half of the 20th century. She has taken part in several grant projects focused on this topic and is the author of a number of publications, including Jakob Schmeiβner: Z mého života a tvorby (Jakob Schmeiβner: My Life and Work), as well as exhibitions, such as Vladimír Krýš/The Turnov Builder.
Markéta Svobodová is an art historian working at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses primarily on 19th–21st-century architecture. She contributed to the publication Umělecké památky Prahy: Velká Praha (Artistic Monuments of Prague: Greater Prague). In her research, she focuses on the intersections of architecture with scenography, exhibition design, and industrial design. She is the author of the books Bauhaus a Československo 1919–1938 (Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938), Hore zdar! Stavební strategie Klubu českých/československých turistů 1888–1949 (1989–2015) (Have a Great Climb! Building Strategies of the Czech/Czechoslovak Tourist Club 1888–1949 [1989–2015]), and Krematorium v procesu sekularizace českých zemí 20. století (The Crematorium in the Process of Secularization of the Czech Lands in the 20th Century).
Zbyněk Tarant is an anthropologist, historian and Israel Studies scholar currently based at the Department of Middle-Eastern Studies of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His interdisciplinary research encompasses issues of collective memory, Czech-Jewish relations, and contemporary antisemitism. In addition to his books, which include The Diaspora of Memory or Czechoslovak Hurban, he has written around forty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters about contemporary antisemitism, the politics of memory and the role of the media in historical events.
Petra Vladařová is a scholar in Jewish studies oriented on the documentation of Jewish heritage. In her focus on Jewish Studies at the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University, she directed her research toward the documentation of Jewish cemeteries. She presented part of this research in the book, Jewish Cemeteries in Radnice, Terešov, and Hřešihlavy. She has been with the property caretaking company Matana for several years. Between 2017 and 2021 she was part of the authors’ collective that documented Jewish cemeteries in South Bohemia, whose research results were published in the book, Beth Olam: The Jewish Cemeteries in South Bohemia. She has also participated in the production of documentaries for Czech Television.