Stop 1: Identity

Chapter 1: Family Background

Chapter 2: First Question:

Chapter 3: Second Question:

Chapter 4: Brief Biographies of Witnesses

Chapter 5: Third question:

Stop 1: Completed

Stop 2: The Seat of the Jewish community

Chapter 1: Onset of Persecution

Chapter 2: Memories of Persecution

Chapter 3: Brief Biographies of Witnesses

Chapter 4: Jews expelled from the Sokol movement

Chapter 5: Swimming Prohibited for Jews

Chapter 6: Part of the Police Rules on Marking the Jews

Chapter 7: Hats and Sweets Prohibited for Jews

Chapter 8: Use of Phones Prohibited to Jews

Chapter 9: Newspapers and Garlic Prohibited to Jews

Chapter 10: The Building of the Jewish Community in 1939

Chapter 11: Retraining Courses in 1940

Chapter 12: From the Expatriation Department, 1940

Stop 2: Completed

Stop 3: Last Minute Escape

Chapter 1: Memory of Hilde Raab

Chapter 2: Question:

Chapter 3: Brief Biography of the Witness

Chapter 4: A Family relic

Chapter 5: Tax document from Tangier

Chapter 6: The Adolf Loos design

Stop 3: Completed

Stop 4: The Great Synagogue

Chapter 1: Memories of the Pilsen synagogue

Chapter 2: Brief Biographies of Witnesses

Chapter 3: Question:

Chapter 4: Synagogue at the beginning of the occupation

Chapter 5: Synagogue as a warehouse for furniture of those who were murdered

Chapter 6: Another view of the furniture in the main nave of the synagogue

Chapter 7: The synagogue building in the post-war years

Stop 4: Completed

Stop 5: Stolpersteine of Mr. and Mrs. Löw

Chapter 1: Testimony of Juan Lamac

Chapter 2: A brief life-story of the witness and his family

Chapter 3: Hanuš Löw, later Juan Lamač, at the beginning of WWII:

Stop 5: Completed

Stop 6: Jewish Pilsen after the war

Chapter 1: Testimony of Petr Weber

Chapter 2: Bar mitzvah celebration

Chapter 3: Brief Biography of the Witness

Chapter 4: Petr Weber's bar mitzvah

Chapter 5: Question:

Stop 6: Completed

Stop 7: Art and Forgiveness

Chapter 1: Memorial plaque on the conservatory building

Chapter 2: Testimony of Zuzana Růžičková

Stop 7: Completed

Stop 8: The Garden of Memories

Chapter 1: Memory and name

Chapter 2: Memorial Design

Chapter 3: Memorial at the new Jewish cemetery in Pilsen

Chapter 4: Garden of Memories in the Former Auxiliary Synagogue

Chapter 5: Returns and Non-returns

Stop 8: Completed

In the footsteps of Pilsen Jews

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