[Leica] IMG: Czech Holocaust memorial

[Jean-Michel Mertz]

Very moving place and pictures. I visited this museum about ten years ago. The children's drawings are still  vivid in my memory.

JM


Jean-Michel Mertz
68750 - Bergheim


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De : LUG <lug-bounces+j2m46=hotmail.fr at leica-users.org> de la part de Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>
Envoyé : mercredi 16 août 2017 08:57
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Objet : [Leica] IMG: Czech Holocaust memorial

Perhaps it is no coincidence that I came to these pictures today, just
after events in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Here are three photographs
from the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, which is both a museum and
Holocaust memorial as well as a working synagogue.

Part of the memorial roster of 78,000 Czech Jews murdered by the Nazis.
After the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring, the
exhibit was closed. It was not reopened until the fall of Communism in
1995.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007342/in/dateposted-public/>

[X]Czech Holocaust victim's names<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007342/in/dateposted-public/>
Part of the memorial roster of 78,000 Czech Jews murdered by the Nazis. After the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring, the exhibit was closed. It was not reopened until the fall of Communism in 1995. Pinkas Synagogue, Prague, June 2017.

[https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4348/36433007342_c62cab8437_b.jpg] <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007342/>
[https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4348/36433007342_c62cab8437_b.jpg]





Detail of the above:
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007102/in/dateposted-public/>

[X]Czech Holocaust victim's names (detail)<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007102/in/dateposted-public/>
Detail of the memorial roster of 78,000 Czech Jews murdered by the Nazis. Each red inscription is a family name, followed by first names and dates of birth and deportation to the death camps. After the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring, the exhibit was closed. It was not reopened until the fall of Communism in 1995. Pinkas Synagogue, Prague, June 2017.

[https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4442/36433007102_448d14a83d_b.jpg] <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007102/>
[https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4442/36433007102_448d14a83d_b.jpg]





Children's drawings from the Terezin (Theresienstadt) transit camp,
which is about 35 km from Prague.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007102/in/dateposted-public/>

[X]Czech Holocaust victim's names (detail)<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007102/in/dateposted-public/>
Detail of the memorial roster of 78,000 Czech Jews murdered by the Nazis. Each red inscription is a family name, followed by first names and dates of birth and deportation to the death camps. After the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring, the exhibit was closed. It was not reopened until the fall of Communism in 1995. Pinkas Synagogue, Prague, June 2017.

[https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4442/36433007102_448d14a83d_b.jpg] <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007102/>
[https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4442/36433007102_448d14a83d_b.jpg]





--Peter

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