Stop 1: Modern people

Chapter 1: New synagogue

Chapter 2: Jewish Identity

Chapter 3: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 4: Prof. Dr. Baruch Kurzweil

Chapter 5: Brief biographies of the Witnesses

Chapter 6: The fate of the synagogue

Chapter 7: Destruction of the synagogue

Chapter 8: The Last Remnant

Stop 1: Completed

Stop 2: Administrative building of the Jewish religious community

Chapter 1: Prestigious address

Chapter 2: Testimony of Margit Freund

Chapter 3: Glossary

Chapter 4: Cantor Mann

Chapter 5: Unique recording

Chapter 6: Brief bio of the witness

Chapter 7: Refugees

Chapter 8: “Non-Aryans"

Chapter 9: The desperation of refugees

Chapter 10: The Second Republic

Chapter 11: Further fate of the building

Stop 2: Completed

Chapter 1: Statue in the park

Chapter 2: Testimony of Cecilie Korycan

Chapter 3: Glossary

Chapter 4: Brief Biography of the Witness

Stop 3: Completed

Stop 4: The Gestapo in Brno

Chapter 1: Testimony of Emil Jacoby

Chapter 2: Hitler in Brno

Chapter 3: Brief biography of the Witness

Stop 4: Completed

Stop 5: Café Esplanade

Chapter 1: Café as a meeting place

Chapter 2: Modern world

Chapter 3: The end of safety

Chapter 4: Memories of the Witnesses

Chapter 5: Brief Biographies of the Witnesses

Stop 5: Completed

Stop 6: Social care

Chapter 1: Remembering the Home for Poor Students

Chapter 2: Brief bio of the Witness

Chapter 3: Remembering the Jewish orphanage

Stop 6: Completed

Stop 7: Before the deportation

Chapter 1: Testimony: Our wedding

Chapter 2: Additional question:

Chapter 3: Brief biography of the Witness

Chapter 4: Rabbi Albert Schön

Stop 7: Completed

Stop 8: I'm not giving you up!

Chapter 1: Testimony of Bedřich Tauber

Chapter 2: Brief Biography of the Witness

Chapter 3: Summons of Bedřich Tauber to the transport

Chapter 4: Instructions for the deportees

Stop 8: Completed

Stop 9: Stolpersteine

Chapter 1: What are the Stolpersteine?

Chapter 2: It is forbidden!

Chapter 3: Detail of the sign

Chapter 4: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 5: Brief biographies of the Witnesses

Stop 9: Completed

Stop 10: Memory of places and memory of people

Chapter 1: Zionist Publishing House

Chapter 2: Hugo Gold

Chapter 3: The Zionists

Chapter 4: Museum of Romani culture

Chapter 5: Testimony of Eduard Holomek

Chapter 6: What about the words "gypsy" and “Roma"?

Chapter 7: Brief bio of the witness

Chapter 8: Commemorating the Romani Genocide

Chapter 9: Shared destiny

Chapter 10: NAŠŤI BISTERAS!

Chapter 11: Thanking the sponsors

Stop 10: Completed

In the footsteps of Jewish Brno

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Testimony of Cecilie Korycan

How were Cecilia and Herman different from us who establish our relationships today? What obstacles stood in their way?

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