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 ...

(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.

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's more than 1,000 years since the first Jews arrived in Prague. While much was destroyed ... what is arguably it's crown jewel - the oldest synagogue in Europe - still active today.

When on April 5 th, First Lady Michelle Obama visited Prague’s Pinkas Synagogue with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod, a senior White House advisor, she expressed ...

PRAGUE – Prague's Jewish Museum has launched ... II are being projected on the outer wall of a Jewish bath at the Pinkas Synagogue after it gets dark. The synagogue's inside walls bear the ...

The Pinkas Synagogue in central Prague. The walls in the synagogue are overwritten with some 80,000 names of the Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust (photo credit: REUTERS) With ticket sales to ...