After the Shoah, and with communist rule well established (though perhaps not totally accidentally three years after Stalin’s death), in the year 1956, the Jews in Bardejov decided to build a new Mikvah right next to the old one.
The old Mikvah was too big for the few survivors who had returned. So, a new building was erected, with a rain water collector on the roof, an oven, a bath tub for cleaning before getting into the pool and all the trimmings.
There is one basin for mixing the live water (the rain water) with regular pipe water and one basin with steps leading down. The pool is approximately 160 cm deep. Taking the dip properly would not be a simple task for average people to-day, but at the time this depth apparently seemed adequate. 
