The Pinchas Synagogue in Prague

From Gabe Kerbrat’s blog (excerpted with permission) about his visit to the Pinchas Synagogue – the home of our rescued Torah. You can see how the shape of our ark was based on the Synagogue windows.

I had been to this building once before. It was closed for rehabilitation construction. I was excited to see it was open.

It is such a modest building from outside. It looks like a house, but the power comes from what the building now holds.

These are the names of 80,000 Jewish people who lived in Bohemia and Moravia and were murdered by the Nazis.

They are grouped by where they lived, then last name. There are some groups of family names that take up half a wall. It has their birth date and the date of their death. It immediately took my breath away. So many names, of such different ages, with the same date of death.

I did not take any of the wall photos since they asked people not to out of respect for the site. A lot of people did anyway. These are photos that I found on the internet.