Old Jewish Cemetery (Stary zidovsky hrbitov) Prague

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    Museums and Witch Burnings

    Jewish Museum

    In the beginning of the day we went to the old Jewish quarter there we learnt what it was like there in Nazis time. On the walls of the Jewish quarter in the Pinkas synagogue where millions of names where written. The names are of all the last and first names of the Jews who where taken to concentration camps like Bergen …

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    Mluvi nekdo anglicky?

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    ... wrenching especially with the photos of the children next to their drawings.   From there we moved on to the Old Jewish Cemetery which was established in the first half of the 15th century.  The oldest tombstone dates back to 1439 and ...

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    Czech this out!

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    ... beer. Our last day in the city we visited the Jewish quarter which was both informative and interesting, We visited the old Jewish cemetery which dated back to the 14th century and held over 12000 bodies (none of which belonged to the holocaust massacre ...

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    Czech Out Our Prague Blog!!!

    ... for a couple hours to give you a boost for the rest of the trip. We toured a couple of Synagogues and the old Jewish cemetery. We had great gelato and explored the side streets despite the constant rain. One resource we used in planning our trip, was ...

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    Paris, A London Thanksgiving and Prague

    ... of the largest and most affluent Jewish Populations in Europe. Today only 6,000 Jewish people live in and around Prague. The old Jewish Cemetery, ironically was not destroyed when the Nazi's occupied Prague. Instead they intended it to serve as a museum ...

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    Prague is now my favorite! Just simply amazing!

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    ... the bridge and continued into the Jewish Quarter.  We  saw the Old-New Synagogue and peered down the street at the Old Jewish Cemetery, where the stones and bodies were packed on top of each other for a lack of space. Our tour guide led us ...

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    We are here!!

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    ... went into the ceremonial hall. This was a "museum" explaining Jewish traditions from birth to burial. We walked through the old Jewish cemetery. So many head stones stacked in random fashion. We went to Our Lady of Victory church to see the Infant ...

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    Museums and Witch Burnings

    ... Halak, Spacek and Hamirlik where just kids (if I'm wrong about some of them I mean no offence.) After that we saw the old Jewish Cemetery which dates back to 1439.  There are almost 12,000 tombstones in the cemetery with over 100,00 people buried 7 ...

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    Praha

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    ... suffered in the very area the Synagogue is now located.  In addition to these two beautiful monuments, there is the old Jewish Cemetery.  This is Europe's oldest surviving Jewish cemetery and has been used from as far back as the 15th ...

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    Cemetery Rain, Castle Tropics, and Cooling Off

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    ... the tsunami to the old Jewish Quarter and bought tickets that would give us entrance to several synagogues/museums and the old Jewish Cemetery.  At the first site, which had been converted into a holocaust memorial to the 80,000 victims from ...

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    Hello, Praha!

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    ... ) that runs parallel to the Charles Bridge.  It was after 4pm by the time we got to the Pinkas Synagogue and the Old Jewish Cemetery within Josefov, and we quickly found that visiting hours ended by 4pm.  So – we will come back to the ...