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Pinkas Synagogue

Inside the front door of the Pinkas Synagogue, inscribed in tiny red and black letters on almost every square inch of wallspace are the names of 77,297 Jews who were killed in the war. This visual representation humanizes such a number, attaching names to the statistics. In larger type at the front of the synagogue are the names of the concentration camps in which they perished: Dachau, Mauthausen, Oswiecim (Auschwitz) and others. The second floor houses a moving exhibit of children's art which is smaller than the original exhibit at Terezin but no less sad.

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Pinkas Synagogue, whose walls bear the names of 78,000 Czech Holocaust victims.

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Pinkas Synagogue, whose walls bear the names of 78,000 Czech Holocaust victims.

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