Day 7 - Jewish Museums & Cemetery

Today we toured the Pinkas Synagogue & Old Jewish Cemetery and the Klausen Synagogue.

The Pinkas Synagogue is a memorial to Holocost victims from Moravia & Bohemia. The walls are covered with the names of the 77,297 Jewish people who died. There is a display of art made by children in the Terezin concentration camp which was located about 70 km north of Prague.

The cemetery is equally moving. For over 300 years it was the only buriel ground permitted for the Jews. There are an estimated 100,000 graves buried on top of each other, as much as 12 layers deep.

The Klaussen Synagogue has a collection of scripts and items used to maintain Jewish customs.En savoir plus