Prague, Jewish Cemetery

(4 photos)

Prague’s Jewish Cemetery is one of the most unusual old curiosities we have ever seen. In just a very few acres 100,000 people were buried between the late 1400’s and the late 1700’s. There are only 12,000 graves, but people were buried eight and ten deep over the years. The thousands of headstones in this cemetery are various sizes, crammed together, and lean in all directions.

One year as we visited here, we talked to a lady who had been born in Prague, spent time in Auschwitz when she was 14, and is now revisiting her home, and that place of horror. She had married a man from Germany, and they now operate a Bed & Breakfast in San Francisco. Ten years later I called the phone number on her business card, and found she remembered us well. When they show video of their travels, at this scene (her talking with us) her husband explains that his wife talks to people everywhere.

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Here's three more views of the headstones in the Prague Jewish Cemetery.

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