I devoted my final day in Prague to exploring the Old Jewish Ghetto. It is interesting how we non Jews tend to see the Nazis’ horrific atrocities against the Jewish people as a one off. The truth is, as every jew knows, the bigotry and mistreatment of the jewish people has been on going since the beginning of the religion.
In Prague as throughout Europe, the Jewish people have had to endure centuries of abuse and second class treatment. Every large city I have visited has had their own Jewish Ghetto where the entire jewish population, until in recent centuries, had to reside and be confined to after dark.
You can not visit the historic Synagogs, Jewish Museum, and Jewish Cemetery of Prague without being profoundly moved and saddened. Never has one class of people been so persecuted thru the ages. I can’t even imagine being forced to live your life in a walled Ghetto in which the gates were all shut and locked at night to keep you locked in and separated from the rest of the world. Or live a life in which you were prohibited from any number of vocations because of your religion or culture. And live in constant fear that at any time a superstitious ruler or fanatical populace could take all your possessions and banish you from your home.
Attached are photos of my day in the Jewish Quarter. Particularly haunting are the photos of the old cemetery where because this was the only place jews were allowed to be buried they were buried 12 deep. Also, notice the script writing on the walls of the one Synagog. These are the names and last known addresses of all the Jewish people rounded up and murdered by the Nazis. The names cover every wall in the house of worship.
Attached 
are some of the photos I took of the 
cemetery 
and Synagogs.
