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 […]
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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