At the beginning of July 1942, SS Lieutenant Karl Rahm, the deputy director of the Central Office of Jewish Emigration in Prague and later commander of the Theresienstadt ghetto, instructed the Jewish community to transform the local Klaus synagogue into a “Jewish Museum, Department Province.”

Around the same time, he ordered them to turn the women’s prayer hall in Prague’s medieval Altneuschul into an exhibition space for its own artifacts. Shortly thereafter, the first mention of a Jewish Central Museum appeared in Jewish communal discussions as a possible exhibition site for textiles.

On the same day, Rahm visited the old Jewish Museum and the surrounding synagogues. Simultaneously, a bank account was opened with 30,000 Czech korunas for financing the museum, while the Pinkas synagogue was insured against fire and vandalism (a highly ironic turn of events given the [Fascists’] recent destruction of synagogues on Kristallnacht). With these decisions, the [Axis] made a commitment to preserving not only Jewish objects, but Jewish buildings, including the old cemetery.

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I had to look up what a Metula is. It’s the northernmost village in Isn’treal, exposed in peninsular fashion to Lebanon.