Josefov

Josefov (also Jewish Quarter; German: Josefstadt) is a town quarter and the smallest cadastral area of Prague, Czech Republic, it was the Jewish ghetto of the town. Jewish people were forced to wear the yellow Magen David (Star of David) during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Narrow streets of the ghetto, demolished between 1893 and 1913
The old synagogue
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