The Cemetery is on Partizánska road, perhaps 1km from the town center. It is on a slope and enclosed by a wall approximately 2m high. The gates are safely locked and it is difficult to get a glimps inside. We did our best, however, and managed to take some photographs from over the wall or […]
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Synagóga Café, Trnava
My first reaction was dismay. But then I sat down, had a lemonade and began to argue with myself. The dismay I experience is not really with the proprietors who have turned this beautiful building into a beautiful, pleasant, spacious coffee house. It is the decline and destruction of Jewish life in Slovakia and the […]
The “New” Mikvah in Bardejov
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 […]
The Klois of The Chevra Bikur Cholim, Bardejov, Slovakia
No more than three minutes’ walk from the town square is a white washed building, a little higher than the other houses it is squeezed into. The carefully restored writing near the top of the building, and a proud little plaque on the wall mark it as a synagogue: the”Klois” of the Chevra Bikur Cholim, […]
The Synagogue Building in Malacky, Slovakia
For some historical background, see https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_slovakia/Slo331.html