Salomon Hugo Lieben
(1881-1942)

Founder of the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1906. He had retired from his post at the Museum to work as Head of the Prague Burial Society, but became involved again when the plan to establish the Central Jewish Museum was being discussed and put into practice.

Dr. S. H. Lieben
Photo: Archive of the Jewish
Museum in Prague

Dr.Tobias Jakobovits
(1887-1944)

The former Librarian of the Prague Jewish Community became the Scientific Head of the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Together with Lieben he co-curated the wartime exhibition of rare prints and manuscripts.

Dr. Tobias Jakobovits
Photo: Archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Dr.Karel Stein (1906-1961)

Chairman of the Department of Provincial Affairs at the Prague Jewish Community and probably the author of the idea of gathering all the objects from Bohemian and Moravian synagogues and saving them in Prague. He was the only community leader to survive the war and became the Head of the Prague Jewish Community after the war. In 1949 he moved to Israel.

Alfred Engel (1881-1944)

Former curator of the Central Jewish Museum for Moravia and Silesia in Mikulov (Nikolsburg), whose contents were moved first in May 1938 to Brno and then in May 1942 to Prague, where they became a major component of the Central Jewish Museum with Engel as one of its curators.