Very little. According to what I heard, the Jewish cemetery was eliminated by the Communist government in the 1950s. Apparently, it took quite some time until the graveyard was actually destroyed to make place for apartment buildings and a large park. The buildings surrounding the park seem from the 1970s. It seems in 2025, a […]
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Jewish Cemetery Floridsdorf
Squeezed in between a railroad viaduct and a building materials dealership a tiny Jewish cemetery may be found. Floridsdorf is one of the Viennese districts on the “other” side of the Danube (viewed from the city center), huge in size and population, containing industrial as well as agricultural areas. Before the Shoah it was home […]
The Grave of The Chatam Sofer
Near the banks of the river Danube in Bratislava there is a streetcar station (tram stop for our friends from the UK) named for non other than the Chatam Sofer who is buried here. Moshe Schreiber, better known as the Chatam Sofer was one of the greatest rabbis of his generation and served for some […]
The Trenčín Jewish Cemetery
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 […]