Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague is the oldest preserved Jewish cemetery in Europe. There are about 12,000 graves here. They were buried here. Jehuda Löwa ben Bekalela, David Gansa, David Oppenheim and Mordechai Meisel. This necropolis is currently run by the Jewish Museum in Prague.
The cemetery is located on the highest hill of the Jewish town. The oldest matzevot, or Jewish gravestone, belongs to the rabbi and poet Avigdor Kara and dates from 1439. Joseph forbids bury burials in old cemeteries in the center of town.
In the area of the cemetery a route leading to the most important places was established. An interesting fact about the Old Jewish Cemetery is that, paradoxically, it owes its existence in an intact state to Adolf Hitler. The chief of the Third Reich after the extermination of the Jewish people planned to set up a museum devoted to the Jews.
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