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… is sometimes difficult

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 […]

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, […]

For some historical background, see https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_slovakia/Slo331.html