[Leica] [OM] IMG: Czech Holocaust memorial

[Nathan Wajsman]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for sharing these. Two things, however: the third link points to the same image as the second. And: while the museum may not have reopened until 1995, Communism fell in 1989/90.

These photos remind me of the Heydrich assassination—here was one top Nazi who got what he deserved early on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich

Of course, it did not change the course of the war, and the consequences for the Czech people were terrible, but still.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 16 Aug 2017, at 08:57, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/>
> 
> Detail of the above:
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36433007102/in/dateposted-public/>
> 
> 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/>
> 
> --Peter
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