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Name

Memorial for the Victims of the Shoah from the Czech Lands

Who is Commemorated?

Jews from Bohemia and Moravia killed in the Holocaust

Description

The Pinkas Synagogue is dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Bohemia and Moravia. Their names are inscribed on the walls of the nave and other areas. The text of the inscriptions was compiled from transport documents, registration lists, and testimonies of the survivors. The inscriptions include names of the victims, his/her place of birth and his/her place of his death. In cases the date of death is unknown, the date of the deportation to ghettos and camps is written. The names are grouped by cities and towns in which they lived before deportation or arrest. The names are listed alphabetically. In the nave, appear the names of Jews from Prague; the rest of the interior space commemorates the victims outside the city.

The memorial also included permanent exhibitions - Children's Drawings from the Terezín Ghetto; Journeys with No Return: The Deportation of Jews from the Czech Lands, 1939-1945; The Faces of the Victims of the Shoah.

Inscriptions

The walls of the synagogues are inscribed with almost 80,000 names of Jews from Czechoslovakia killed in the Holocaust.

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