Prague Day 2 - Jewish tour

Today we took a VoiceMap Jewish tour of Prague. There are 6 large surviving synagogues in the old Jewish quarter and we visited them all. In one, there is now a Holocaust memorial with all the names of killed Czech Jews written on the walls. It also had a heart wrenching exhibit of the original children’s drawings that were found in the concentration camps. Near another synagogue there is old Jewish cemetery that dates 600 years back, with 10 thousand gravestones and many layers of graves, estimating over 100,000 graves. We also visited beautiful Spanish synagogue with moorish decorations. Now, there are a few thousand Jews and the population is growing.Read more