Stop 1: Beyond the walls

Chapter 1: Older than the Royal City of Olomouc

Chapter 2: Christkillers

Chapter 3: Citizens

Chapter 4: Greetings from Olomouc

Chapter 5: The heart of Jewish life

Chapter 7: Testimony of Karel Hájek

Chapter 8: Memories of Anthony Hare

Chapter 9: Testimony of Gertruda Bartková

Chapter 10: On the spot

Chapter 11: Synagogue like any other

Chapter 12: Rabbi Oppenheim's speech in the Olomouc synagogue.

Chapter 13: Testimony of Elizabeth Herrlich

Chapter 14: Continuation of Elizabeth Herrlich's testimony

Chapter 15: The burning of the synagogue

Chapter 16: The photographer walks around the synagogue, firefighters continue to intervene.

Chapter 17: A firefighter is climbing the ladder.

Chapter 18: The fire sprinkler operator noticed the photographer.

Chapter 19: Fireman with a hose working on the fire of the dome.

Chapter 20: Two firemen on the synagogue roof.

Chapter 21: The photographer continues walking around the synagogue and looks back.

Chapter 22: Charred, but saved

Chapter 23: It has to go.

Chapter 24: Demolish, but don't waste the material.

Stop 1: Completed

Stop 2: Nowhere to go

Chapter 1: Right by the synagogue

Chapter 2: Daddy

Chapter 3: Leaving home

Chapter 4: Where to go?

Chapter 5: They survived in Shanghai

Chapter 6: From Olomouc to Shanghai

Chapter 7: Ghetto at the end of the world

Chapter 8: The continuity of hatred

Chapter 9: Lost Home

Chapter 10: Active until the end

Stop 2: Completed

Stop 3: The wall of the detention centre in Havlíčkova Street

Chapter 1: The first day of the war

Chapter 2: Truda's testimony continues

Chapter 3: Unique documents

Stop 3: Completed

Stop 4: The daughter of Julius Engelmann

Chapter 1: Remembering the family

Chapter 2: Family photo

Stop 4: Completed

Stop 5: The Gestapo office

Chapter 1: A series of miracles

Stop 5: Completed

Stop 6: The best suit in town

Chapter 1: An advertisement

Chapter 2: 15 March 1939

Chapter 4: Family memories

Chapter 5: Graves far apart

Stop 6: Completed

Stop 7: The Scheck family house

Chapter 1: Refugees from Galicia

Chapter 2: The Patriarch

Chapter 3: Olomouc and the Zionists

Chapter 4: Who exactly are the Zionists?

Chapter 5: A new generation

Chapter 6: The first victim

Chapter 7: The first deportation to Poland

Chapter 8: Refugees in Soviet-occupied Lviv

Chapter 9: Gulag

Chapter 10: Deportation of the rest of the family

Chapter 11: Preserving facts and memory

Chapter 12: New home - Israel

Stop 7: Completed

Stop 8: An illegal migrant

Chapter 1: People smugglers

Chapter 2: Perl's action

Chapter 3: It's not a boat, it's a tub

Chapter 4: Lost at sea

Chapter 5: The Parents

Stop 8: Completed

Stop 9: In father's hometown

Chapter 1: Testimony of Gertruda Bartková

Stop 9: Completed

Stop 10: Ghetto without walls

Chapter 1: You're not allowed anything

Chapter 2: The Continuation of the Gertruda Bartková story

Chapter 3: School in Hálkova Street

Chapter 4: Parents

Stop 10: Completed

Stop 11: Continuity and context awareness

Chapter 1: After the war

Chapter 2: The Wandering Synagogue

Chapter 3: Homecoming

Stop 11: Completed

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Why do you think Mr. Hajek couldn't finish the last sentence?

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