Plzeň and Březnice

Plzeň located 90 km SW of Prague, in the city of Plzeň you can visit the second largest synagogue in the whole Europe. Březnice, records of Jewish settlement from early 16th century, ceased to exist in WW II. Jewish ghetto important from the point of view of town-planning, very valuable cemetery with its oldest legible gravestones form late 17th century.

Svitavy and Boskovice

Svitavy located 190km E of Prague, a small town where you can see the Oscar Schindler´s memorial. Boskovice, town in NW Moravia where you can see one of the largest and most valuable Jewish cemeteries in the Czech lands. Jewish settlement of unknown date dates back to the 15th century.

Mikulov

located 250km SE of Prague in southern Moravia, records Jewish settlement from the 1st half of the 15th century, abolished by the Nazis in 1938. It was once the most important Jewish community in Moravia, second most numerous (after Prague) Jewish community in the Czech lands, including a very valuable cemetery with some 2,500 gravestones.

Mikulov used to be the spiritual, cultural and political center of Moravian Jews and till the 1851 a residential town of Moravian rabbis. Till the mid of the 19th. century the local Jewish community was the most numerous Jewish community in Moravia – they had own schools, shops, spa centers, oratories and even a cemetery. Fates of the local inhabitants are brought to life by a permanent exhibition housed in the Upper Synagogue in Husova street built in 1550. An educational track with thirteen stop-points leads through the former ghetto: among others tourists can see a precious cemetery where famous Moravian provincial rabbis are buried.