Jewish Museum - Jewish Quarter

Today we visted the Jewish Quater. We got tickets for the Jewish Museum which is in 5 parts, got around 3 today and will finish the rest next weekend. There are lots of photos of the Old Jewish Cemetry because most of the places we visited you are not allowed to take photos. The Old Jewish Cemetery has about 12,000 tombstones however there are over 100,000 people buried here. Jews were not allowed to be buried outside of the Jewish ghetto, so the dead were buried on top of each other, up to ten layers deep. There was so much history to read in the Maisel Synagogue and Pinkas Synagogue that we visited. The Pinkas Synagogue has the names of 80,000 Jews that were murdered by the Nazis, not included in the names are the other 183,000 Slovak Jews because the memorial was made after the fall of communisum. In the Jewish Quarter there are still many buildings that have not been inhabited since WWII. These buldings are in the most expensive parts of Prague but can not be destroyed or sold due to the fact that some distance relative could possibly have escaped to Isreal and can still claim the land back that was taken by the Nazis or Communist regime. Walking through these areas is very sobering, seeing artwork by children who had to cope with being taken away from their families and forced to live in the ghettos later being extermiated themselves or rescued and raised secretly by other families. Even the thought of people being 'exterminated' is absolutely beyond comprehension.