Milíč house

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Milíč house

The Milíč House , a unique daycare center, opened on December 24, 1933 in the Žižkov district of Prague . The construction was organized by the preacher, social worker and humanist Přemysl Pitter .

history

After the First World War, Přemysl Pitter worked as an agent for child care in the Prague district of Žižkov , where he got to know the poor living conditions of local families. Pitter and several enthusiasts focused their activity on preventive work with children. For these children, he and his friends organized all sorts of children's circles and it was important to him to secure the construction of his own day care center.

Pitter founded the Milíč-Haus construction and housing association and began collecting financial contributions for the construction. A competition was held for the Milíč House building project. The competition was won by the functionalist building design by the Prague architect Erwin Katona, and for financial reasons it was built in two steps (1933, 1936).

The Milíč house was equipped for working with children. Workshops, club rooms, a reading room, a gym, a music room and a garden were available to the children. The task of the Milíč House was to bring up children between 5 and 14 years of age and spend their free time in a meaningful way.They could take part in various activities (singing, rhythm, table and movement games, drama, German and cooking courses, ball games or gardening) and their homework do and prepare for class. The parents were informed about the educational activities at the parents' meetings. In addition to educational care, the children were also physically looked after (medical examinations, hygiene, lunch). The educators (Ferdinand Krch, Olga Fierz , the Rott couple, Margit Beck ...) worked with the children free of charge on a voluntary basis.

In 1938, the year-round usable rest home in Mýto near Rokycany was built with voluntary contributions . The children of the Milíč house stayed there for a long time and attended a local school. During the summer vacation camps for children were organized here.

The Milíč House's activity was based on voluntary cooperation and solidarity. In 1934, children of German emigrants who had to flee Nazi Germany were quartered here . At the time of the German occupation, persecuted Jewish families were secretly supported.

After the February coup in 1948, the operation of the Milíč house as a day-care center was initially restricted by the communist regime and later ended by force. The building was used as a children's home from 1953. It has housed a kindergarten since 1976.

literature

  • FALTUSOVÁ, Magdaléna: Milíčův dům na pražském předměstí - příklad česko-německo-židovského soužití. Pedagogické muzeum JA Komenského v Praze, 2008, Czech-German-English publication, ISBN 978-80-86935-07-2
  • FIERZ, Olga: Children's fates in the turmoil of the post-war period. A rescue operation for German and Jewish children 1945 - 1947 in Czechoslovakia, Vitalis 2017, ISBN 978-3-89919-361-9
  • KOHN, Pavel: Castles of Hope. The rescued children of Přemysl Pitter remember. FA Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7766-5045-7
  • PITTER, Přemysl: Under the Wheel of History - autobiography, revised by Sabine Dittrich , Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-86256-083-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PITTER, Premysl: under the wheel of history - autobiography, re-edited by Sabine Dittrich, Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld 2017, s. 61
  2. ↑ Faltusová, Magdalena. Milíčův dům na pražském předměstí - příklad česko-německo-židovského soužití. Pedagogické muzeum JA Komenského v Praze, 2008, Czech-German-English publication, s. 25th
  3. ↑ FIERZ, Olga: Children's fates in the turmoil of the post-war period. A rescue operation for German and Jewish children 1945-1947 in Czechoslovakia, Vitalis 2017, p. 19th
  4. ↑ Pavel Kohn: Castles of Hope. The rescued children of Přemysl Pitter remember. FA Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7766-5045-7 , s. 23

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 1.6 ″  N , 14 ° 27 ′ 42.7 ″  E