Img. ID: 430502
Central paved square on which monuments stands is 206 cm on each side.
Base with inscription is 72 x 81 cm.
This figurative monument stands next to the local House of Culture on Tovačovského Street that was built (in the 1980s?) on the site of the destroyed but once impressive domed synagogue of Kroměříž, designed by prominent Viennese-Jewish architect Jakob Gartner (1861-1921) and opened in 1910. The synagogue was a major building in town and appeared on many postcards in the interwar period. It was blown up with dynamite by the occupying Germans on November 5, 1942.
About 300 Jews of Kroměříž were deported from Kroměříž and died from deprivation or execution. A matzevah-type monument to Jewish victims was erected on the site of what remains of the Jewish cemetery in 1962.
The sculptural monument near the synagogue site was installed in 1994 and is an expressive figurative work by Czech sculptor Olbram Zoubek (1926-2017). Zoubek was a dissident artist under communism who today is best known for his monument to the victims of communism in Prague.