František Zelenka

František Zelenka (8 July 1904, Kutná Hora – 19 October 1944, Auschwitz) was a Czech functionalist architect, graphic, stage and costume designer.

His architectural works included family homes and villas in Prague-Smíchov and at Baba Estate and retail/apartment building on Palackého street and another one on Lodecká with Leopold Ehrmann.

[3] Zelenka was a designer of shops and interiors such the Josef R. Vilímek Bookshop (now Václav Špála Gallery) on Národní Avenue in Prague.

There he organized theatre productions, designed costumes and acted as director on the children's opera BRUNDIBAR that was performed over 50 times.

[3] According to another source[6] Zelenka, and another slave laborer, Joseph Polák, both of whom toiled as catalogers at the Nazi-run Central Jewish Museum, Prague, were deported to the Terezín concentration-death camp Polak perished spring 1943.