Prague - Pinkas Synagogue

(Local Name: Pinkasove Synagóga) Pinkas Synagogue (Pinkasove Synagóga) in Josefov, an active Jewish place of worship for some 400 years, is today a memorial to the Jews from Bohemia and Moravia who fell victim to the Nazis. The names of Czech Jews sent to concentration camps cover the walls, along with the names of the towns they came from, and their date of birth and death. Not all the dates of their deaths are known, so often times they date they were deported to the concentration camp is used. The memorial, known as Memorial 77, 297, which indicates the number of names listed, was designed in the late 1950s by Václav Boštík and Jirí John. The names were promptly erased by the communists in 1959. In 1989