POBYT KARLA POLÁČKA NA MORAVĚ V ROCE 1943
KAREL POLÁČEK AND HIS STAY IN MORAVIA IN 1943

Summary/Abstract: The study monitors a short, but interesting period of the life of Karel Poláček (1892–1945), Czech novelist and journalist of Jewish origin. In 1942, after three years of enforced unemployment, he was engaged by The Jewish Congregation in Prague as a “Treuhänder”, means he assorted confiscated Jewish property, factually their books. Naturally, he didn’t discharge this work only in Prague where he lived, but he was pressured to travel to various Czech towns. Just in spring 1943 he stayed with his fellows in three Moravian towns: in Olomouc and in Prostějov in March and in Brno in April. These three Poláček´s stays are a proper object of the study. The paradox is this unhappy period of Poláček’s life we can watch relativily sufficiently, because there are preserved his correspondence and diary. The last record in this diary was written at the 20th of June 1943, means fortnight before Poláček’s transport to the ghetto of Terezín.

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