Rabbi Richard Feder (1875-1970) of Kolin was deported to Terezín when he was almost 70 years old and was the only survivor of his family. He gained great moral credit for his tireless work in the ghetto.
After the liberation he returned to Cologne, but from 1953 he worked in Brno. In spite of his age, he continued to supervise religious affairs, to work semi-legally with youth and to publish as permitted. He was also behind the unveiling of a memorial plaque to the deportees on the school building in Brno's Merhautova Street, the only similar commemoration of the Shoah in the public space of post-war Czechoslovakia that included a reference to the fact that the deportees were Jews.
Photograph from the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague.