Windows and Walls


     Looking through the windows of the Pinkus Synagogue from the vantage point of the women's section, one can see the tombstones from the adjacent cemetery almost at eye level.

     The walls of the Pinkus Synagogue were used as the memorial on which were listed all of the names of the Jews from Bohemia and Moravia who died in the Holocaust. The memorial wall, which listed names, towns, dates of birth and, where known, dates and places of death, became unstable from humidity and structural problems. Much of the plaster fell off with the names. A new system of application of plaster was devised and applied successfully. The names are almost fully restored to this hallowed place as the only memorials in the Czech Republic for all of the Czech Jews who died in the Shoah.

"A Tour of Jewish Prague" photographs by Mark Talisman.
Text by Project Judaica Foundation.
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