SOKOLOV / FALKENAU
בית הקברות היהודי
The Jewish cemetery
50°10’38.256″N, 12°39’34.821″E
The cemetery was founded in the year 1878. Today it is only a torso from it. There is not even one tomb stone.
שלט הנצחה לזכר קורבנות השואה ובית הכנסת שנשרף
A memorial plaque burned synagogues and Holocaust victims
The
synagogue
was
burned.
Her
torso
was
converted
into
a hotel.
Now
it
is
the
Medical house at which side
(opposite
the entrance to
the primary school)
is a plaque
dedicated
to the
victims
of
the
Holocaust
from
the former
Falknovska
Street (Sokolovska
Street).
אוסף הציורים הייחודי של הצייר דוד פרידמןן
Unique David Friedmann´s Collection
Muzeum in Falkenau, Zámecká Str. 2
There is placed a unique collection of paintings of graphic artist David Friedmann, a native of Ostrava, who worked here. He came here after the war. Already in Ostrava he painted mostly miners and the same theme also impressed him here. He was also known a newspaper cartoonist. Later he emigrated with his new family (the first wife and children died in a concentration camp) – his wife and daughter Miriam to New York. During the emigration he changed a name a little bit. From David Friedmann was David Friedman (with only one “n”). Therefore you may encounter both versions of his name. If you are confused of which here’s the explanation – if we are writing or speaking about him in connection with his activities in exile in the U.S., we write it with two “n”, only after emigrating with one “n”.
David Friedmann always pictured himself as ´the man with glasses´.