Still the journey became known forever more as Passover in Prague ... second-oldest synagogue, the Pinkas synagogue dating from 1535, has been turned into a memorial for Shoah (Holocaust) victims ...

The Pinkas Synagogue at the entrance to the old Jewish cemetery is Prague’s memorial to the 80,000 Czech Jews killed in the Holocaust. The historic synagogue’s walls are adorned with the names ...

The Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, which served as the national memorial site for the murdered Jews of Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 1968, had not been open since the Prague Spring of 1968. In the mid ...

In midlife Juliet is prompted to trace the fate of his extended family after seeing the family name written many times over on the Pinkas Synagogue memorial in Prague. Her extensive research ...

As I stare at the wall of Prague’s Pinkas Synagogue ... including members of the author’s family—in the Pinkas synagogue, a memorial to region's 80,000 Holocaust victims.

The memorial will be built mainly because Prague is among ... which are their names [engraved] in the wall of the Pinkas Synagogue. However, Prague lacks a centre for people to discuss these issues,” ...

The Torah, from the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, has been on permanent loan ... according to the Memorial Scrolls Trust. Curators helped preserve 10,000 items, including about 1,800 Torah scrolls ...

Why on earth would they do that, when officials argue that Prague is perhaps the best place in Europe to be Jewish these days? Part of the answer is written on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue ...

(MENAFN- AFP) A Prague railway station that saw tens ... The Czech capital already has one Shoah memorial -- the Pinkas synagogue in the old Jewish quarter, a busy area popular with tourists.

Synagogue memorial tells chilling story Here in Prague, where I am visiting for ... None are so gripping as the Pinkas Synagogue, built in 1479. It now stands as a memorial, its interior walls ...

Katerina Demelova told me her father is horrified by what has happened to a cafe called Malostranska, in the Mala Strana district of Prague ... In the Pinkas Synagogue the names of these Holocaust ...

Jiri Janousek, deputy director of the Terezin memorial ... in Jewish sightseeing tours. Back in Prague, work goes on to restore the Pinkas Synagogue, the only Jewish site that remains closed ...