Friday 14 April at 6 p.m., Malý Mehrin Museum, Vídeňská 14

I'll bring Grandma home...

Ann Altman wrote to us quite unexpectedly this February. She was talking about a portrait of her
grandmother, Ann Wotzilk, after whom she was named Ann, and her plan to dedicate
painting for the future exhibition of the Mehrin - Moravian Jewish Museum.
Grandmother Anna came from the family of the owner of the Znojmo brewery Rudolf
Wotzillas. She married Emil Löwy from Slavonice, who ran a
mill. In Brno, the couple had two houses built on Botanická Street, where they
moved with their two children in the autumn of 1938 after the Nazis occupied Znojmo. For the daughter and
son will find a way to escape to Britain, but not for himself.
The story of his Moravian family, which passes through Brno and Znojmo as well as Trebic,
Ostrava or Vienna, we will be guided by an extraordinary lady, Ann Altman, granddaughter of
Löwy and Körner, wife of Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Sydney Altman, a successful scientist in the field of molecular biophysics and
biochemistry, awarded for its longstanding support for the development of democratic
processes in Mongolia.
The debate will be simultaneously interpreted into Czech. The stream of the programme can be watched on
FB of Malý Mehrin, the recording will be available on YouTube portal
Mehrinu.