Friday, July 17th,
Today we went to the Jewish quarter in the city. There is a whole section devoted to the history of the Jewish people in Prague. One would think that it would be all about the persecution during the Second World War, and indeed it was to a great extent, but there was a whole other story of living, dying and persecution prior to that horribly historical time. What I found the most difficult were the pictures drawn by children in Terazin, an enternement camp in Czech, close to Prague. There was also an entire synagogue devoted to listing all of the names of the Jewish victims of the second world war from that area. It filled all the walls and every room in small print...all perished between 1941-1944.
