Hachshars, agricultural training centres, began to be established in interwar Czechoslovakia in the 1920s. Their aim was to provide Jewish youth with training in agri-culture and crafts, as well as practical training for life in collective settlements - kibbutzim.

The ideological preparation of the hakhshars was based on the concept of socialist Zionism and aimed at creating an agricultural and working class in Palestine. In addition to practical skills, the training camps stressed the equality of members, and required a sense of responsibility, duty, justice, and a strong sense of solidarity among the members.

Lecture Daniely Bartáková from the Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic will also attempt to describe the changes in the whole concept in response to the approaching war and the need to ensure the deportation of as many Jewish youth as possible. Admission is voluntary.