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

IWitness Dashboard

Another view of the furniture in the main nave of the synagogue

Photograph from the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

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