Admission to the synagogue, included in the self-guided tours of both the Jewish Museum (six sites) and Prague Jewish Town (all of the Jewish museum plus the Old-New Synagogue), costs ...

Dr Franz Joseph Kohner, a prominent barrister in Prague ... the old farmhouse and outbuildings were converted, dormitories for boys and girls, with washrooms, a communal area and a synagogue ...

Nobel laureate Esther Duflo, another speaker on the panel, spoke about how Prague had managed to retain its commercial ... St John’s Church on Council House Street; Maghen David Synagogue at the ...

Birkenau, Fredy was once a beautiful young athlete destined for the Olympics - here, novelist Wendy Holden reflects on his ...

Admission is free. The Spanish Synagogue, built in 1868 in Prague's Jewish Town, stands on the site of the Old School, a 12th-century prayer house. Named for its stunning Moorish-style interior ...

When I was three years old, I became a human being without a country ... paternal grandparents and me, fled to Prague. I had a beautiful new red tricycle I had just received for my birthday.

I was around eight years old, so I didn’t really know what was ... a Jewish organisation looked after us in a centre in Prague, then gave us free travel to go anywhere. After some travelling ...

Start your wanderings in Prague’s cobbled old town, with its magnificent 12th-century town ... The historic Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, home to synagogues that miraculously survived World War II, is ...