A LANDSCAPE OF ABSENCEON A TOUR OF THAT EUROPE WHERE JEWS ONCE THRIVED

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: July 11, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

PRAGUE - By the time we reached Prague, what covered the walls of the ancient Pinkas Synagogue, just minutes from the city's bustling Old Town, shouldn't have stunned us. But it did: some 80,000 names, all of them painted onto a white background, one after the other, row after row, individuals and entire families, the communities to which they belonged, ghostly reminders of the long- ago dead, refusing to be forgotten.

These were the Czech Jews of Bohemia and Moravia who died at the hands of the Nazis.

As Jews, we knew that our trip to five Eastern and Central European countries (Poland, ...

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