Administrative Board
The Administrative Board consists of six members who represent the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, the Terezin Initiative and the Jewish Museum in Prague.
Current Administrative Board members:
Prof. Tomáš Kosta (1925) Survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Worked in publishing since 1950s. In 1968 emigrated to Germany. Directed the publishing house Bund Verlag in Cologne and deputy director of Europeische Verlagsanstalt in Frankfurt. Longtime member of the Broadcast Board of Deutschlandfunk. Prominent member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Since 1990 worked as an advisor to Czech Prime Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Member of the PEN Club. Awarded State Medal of Merit in 2002.
Jiří Čistecký (1971) graduated from the School of Economics in Prague. In 1995 studied at Clingendael Institute in The Hague. Since 1994 works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Served as the Commercial Attaché in Bonn and Political Attaché in Berlin in the years 1996-2001. Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Austria in the years 2003-2008. Head of the Central Europe Department at the MFA since 2008.
Jiří Kuděla (1960) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. Until 1992 worked at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In the years 1992-1997 worked at the Office of the President of the Republic as Head of Territorial Office for Countries of East and Southeast Europe; later as Foreign Policy Advisor (2002-2003). Since 1997 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic; served as the Extraordinary Delegate Ambassador in Croatia (1998-2001) and the Non-Resident Ambassador in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998-2001), currently heads the Strategy, Analysis & Project Management Office. Throughout 1990s taught at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University. Published books and expert studies in the field of history and archival science.
Eva Lorencová (1954) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Masaryk University in Brno. Expert in theatre science and Czech linguistics. Persecuted by the Communist regime, maintained career in puppetry and theatre science. In 1990 worked as a copy-editor in the Publishing House of Lidové noviny. Worked as a volunteer in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Editor of Terezin Studies and Documents of the Terezin Initiative Institute.
Petr Papoušek (1977) graduated from the Faculty of Economics at VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava. Spent a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one year at PAIDEIA – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden. Since 2004 Chairman of the Jewish Community in Olomouc and Deputy Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic. Representative of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the European Council of Jewish Communities and the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.
Michaela Sidenberg is a Czech-born art historian and curator. A graduate from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, she joined the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1996 as the curator of the Museum's collection of Fine Arts. She has since collaborated on many international exhibition projects covering various aspects of Jewish history and culture. An important part of her work as curator is provenance research of Nazi-looted cultural assets. From 1999 to 2000 Sidenberg served as a member on the expert commission established by the Czech government to research and evaluate confiscated Jewish-owned works of art in Czech public collections, and she co-authored the first in-depth study describing the confiscation mechanisms used in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the fate of looted art in Czechoslovakia after 1945 (Works of Art Confiscated from Jewish Owners in the Czech Lands Between 1938 and 1945, Prague, 2000, unpublished report for the government of the Czech Republic).
