The synagogue became an integral part of Olomouc, just as its Jewish inhabitants became an integral part of the city's population. After the abolition of medieval anti-Jewish laws, many of them wondered who they were now: the barriers between people based on religion may have fallen, but new ones soon emerged. National, national, linguistic. The modern world after the First World War then brought the creation of a new nation state, Czechoslovakia.
Now you are going to watch the first of testimony clips of witnesses remembering Jewish Olomouc. You can walk further away from the busy street, perhaps to the little park behind the Terezská Gate.