Museum Dr. Šimon Adler, Dobrá Voda

Museum Dr. Simon Adler was built as a memorial to the Jewish historian and rabbi. It is a branch of the Sušice Šumava Museum.

Dr. Šimon Adler was born on March 15, 1884 in Dobrá Voda, he was executed in 1944 in Auschwitz. He worked as a rabbi in Staňkov and Zbraslav, religion teacher, registrar, archivist and publicist. Before the outbreak of World War II, he was the last rabbi of the High Synagogue in Prague.

The museum exhibition also commemorates the family of Dr. Adler. Part of the exhibition commemorates 25 towns and villages from the region where there were Jewish communities before the war and presents liquidated and saved monuments – synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, etc.

The emphasis is on recalling the difficult life of the Jewish minority in the West Bohemian borderlands.

The history of Czech-Israeli relations and Czechoslovak military aid to Israel in the 1950s is also recalled.


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