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PRAGUE JEWISH MUSEUM
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In one of the most grotesquely ironic acts of WWII, the Nazis took over the man-
agement of the Prague Jewish Museum - first established in 1906 to preserve
artefacts from synagogues that were demolished during the slum clearances in
Josefov around the turn of the 20th century - with the intention of creating a
'museum of an extinct race'. They shipped in materials and objects from des-
troyed Jewish communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia, helping to amass
what is probably the world's biggest collection of sacred Jewish artefacts and a
moving memorial to seven centuries of oppression.
Old-New Synagogue
working synagogue and one of Prague's earliest Gothic buildings. You step down into
