Little Mehrin

OUR Houses - exhibition opening

Thursday 4 January at 6 pm

The use of possessive pronouns is an interesting phenomenon in modern Czech history. MY... YOUR... HER... HIS... OUR... YOUR... THEIR... ALL? On the streets of Brno, as we live in them today, stood over seven hundred houses officially purchased by the Eviction Fund for Bohemia and Moravia during 1941. The original owners of the houses were forced to sell them on the basis of their official designation as Jews, or they lived in marriages with people so designated without wanting to sell THEIR houses. They did not always seek eviction. Some houses were resold by the Fund to private individuals or to the city of Brno, most were kept and rented out. After the end of the war, the owners changed hands again, but only rarely did a house return to the hands of the original ones. In the broadest sense of the word, the designation OURS includes all those who have ever lived in THEIR houses, worked in them, dreamed of something... It also includes us who pass them daily and they form the backdrop of OUR own lives. The exhibition comprehensively presents the topic of the arización of immovable property by the Eviction Fund in Brno. It takes a closer look at eight selected houses. The presented set of information belongs to the wheel of the Holocaust, although OUR interest does not end there. The stories of the individual houses, of course, took different paths after the end of the war. And it is more than likely that they entered your life as well.

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