 Examples of Oral History Recordings and Letters... „I like to meet my old friends, I am quite sentimental and therefore I like to come back to Lostice…On top of it (local dialect) Hanactina is in a fact my native language“.
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 Lostice are renown for their tvaruzky cheese throughout the country and abroad. This unique cheese has been enjoyed by rich and poor for centuries. The term tvaruzky surfaced in written sources from the end of 16th century.
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 The cemetery was founded in 1554. The area of 6 500 square meters contains about 650 gravestones. Most of them were made from Maletin sandstone during the 18th and 19th centuries. The oldest preserved tombstones date from the early the 18th century. The house near the entrance used to be the gravedigger''s dwelling and morgue. The record of the last funeral is from 1942.
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 The Jewish community was part of Lostice's history for almost 400 years. Several significant Jewish intellectuals were born or lived in Lostice, namely the acclaimed rabbi Arje Jehuda ben Rechnitz and his son called Salomo Loschitz, Hebrew scholar Lazar Flamm, rabbis Aron Moses Neuda, Abraham Neuda, Elias Karpelles and Ezriel Gunzig, historian Gustav Karpelles, writers Fanny Neuda and Carola Groag etc. |
In 1939 Nazis destroyed the Olomouc synagogue. Benches from that synagogue were recently discovered and they will be placed in the Lostice synagogue. All 21seats in these benches were dedicated to victims of Holocaust from towns of Loštice, Mohelnice, Úsov and Litovel.
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 Construction of the Olomouc synagogue started in 1895. In 1897, it was
consecrated by Rabbi Dr. Berthold Oppenheim. On the night of the 15th of
March 1939, the synagogue was burnt down and destroyed by local Fascists.
Today only a few wooden benches and eight stained glass windows remain.
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 Books and artifacts are used for exhibitions and educational programs. Respect and Tolerance exhibition. Mohelnice Musem, 2006
Special thanks: Janet & Stanton Canter Family Trust
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 Religious service - first since WWII. Concert of Jewish songs - by a local children's choir Vetrnik. Art exhibition There Once Was a World – artwork by local high school students and professional artists inspired by Jewish history and culture..
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