Pinkas Synagogue & The Children's Drawings of Terezín

Why is it significant?

Step inside the quiet, vaulted hall of Pinkas Synagogue, built in fifteen thirty-five by Rabbi Aron Meshulam Horowitz. Settle into the absolute silence: covering every inch of the white plaster walls on two floors are nearly eighty thousand names, hand-painted in red and black ink.

Key Facts

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Step inside the quiet, vaulted hall of Pinkas Synagogue, built in fifteen thirty-five by Rabbi Aron Meshulam Horowitz. Settle into the absolute silence: covering every inch of the white plaster walls on two floors are nearly eighty thousand names, hand-painted in red and black ink.

Each entry records the name, birth date, and date of death or deportation of a Czech Jewish man, woman, or child murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. It is one of the most powerful, heartbreaking memorials in the world.

Upstairs in the gallery lies an exhibition of drawings created by children imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp under the guidance of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Before she was murdered at Auschwitz in nineteen forty-four, Friedl hid two suitcases packed with four thousand five hundred children's drawings, preserving their innocence and fragile dreams forever.

Walk south toward the Spanish Synagogue on Dušní Street.