Praha - Day 2

So today started out with my first real introduction to Jewish religion and culture. Prague actually has one of the biggest collections of Jewish Artefacts in the world - who knew!

The Jewish Museum is actually of six monuments and sties clustered together in Josefov museum for , theold Jewish ghetto. The irony lays in the fact that the Nazis preserved this area for a planned museum of an extinct race. The most touching part was the Pinkas Synagogue, whose walls are inscirbed with the names, birthdates and dates of disappearance of the 77,297 Czech victims of the Nazis. It also houses a collection of paintings and drawings by children held in the Terezin concentration camp.

Unfortunately you can't take pictures of the insides, and the outsides were not really worth it. But I was able to take some picutes of the Old Jewish Cemetery. There are 12,000 crumbling stones, heaped together over 100,000 graves piled in layers because of lack of space.











And this is the Old New Synagogue, I couldn't find the New Old Synagogue, or the Old Old Synagogue, or the New New Synagogue.