Stop 1: The Main Synagogue

Chapter 1: Ostrava's Main Synagogue as an integral part of the city

Chapter 2: Detail

Chapter 3: Street facade of the Main Synagogue in Ostrava

Chapter 4: Interior of the Main Synagogue in Ostrava

Chapter 5: Modernization in the 1930s

Chapter 6: Modernist Facade

Chapter 7: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 8: Brief Biographies of the Witnesses

Chapter 9: A reminder of the past

Chapter 10: The Memorial

Stop 1: Completed

Stop 2: The Jewish School

Chapter 1: School as the last refuge

Chapter 2: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 3: Biographies of the Survivors

Chapter 4: Sport

Chapter 5: Theater

Chapter 6: Another memory of the school

Chapter 7: Biography of the Witness

Chapter 8: School work: Czech language

Chapter 9: School work: religion

Chapter 10: School work: natural history

Chapter 11: School work: mathematics

Chapter 12: School work: drawing

Chapter 13: Question:

Chapter 14: A Lost Place to Remember

Chapter 15: A Lost Place to Remember

Stop 2: Completed

Stop 3: The Detention Prison

Chapter 1: Gestapo prison

Chapter 2: Artur Radvanský remembers

Chapter 3: Brief biography of the Witness

Stop 3: Completed

Stop 4: Jewish Identity

Chapter 1: Who are we?

Chapter 2: Bedřich Kopold remembers

Chapter 3: Bedřich Kopold with his father

Chapter 4: Brief biography of the Witness

Stop 4: Completed

Stop 5: The "Retraining Centre"

Chapter 1: What was "retraining"?

Chapter 2: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 3: Biographies of the Survivors

Chapter 4: Question:

Stop 5: Completed

Stop 6: Protectorate Headquarters of the Jewish Community

Chapter 1: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 2: Question:

Chapter 3: Order for the Jews of Ostrava

Chapter 4: Instructions to the Deportees

Chapter 5: Biographies of the Survivors

Chapter 6: Deportations to Nisko

Chapter 7: Deportation of all Jews from Ostrava

Stop 6: Completed

Stop 7: Liberation

Chapter 1: Liberators

Chapter 2: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 3: Biographies of the Survivors

Chapter 4: Thwarted Hopes

Chapter 5: Interior of the planned synagogue in Žerotínova Street, 1948.

Chapter 6: Last question:

Stop 7: Completed

In the Footsteps of Ostrava Jews

IWitness Dashboard

Bedřich Kopold remembers

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