We had a guest speaker yesterday, and on our schedule we had planned to go to the Communist museum afterward. However, our speaker announced he was on his way to a wine tasting, so with the permission of our professor, we joined him and rescheduled the museum tour :)
We went to the Jewish Quarter today, which consisted of 3 synagogues, the Jewish cemetery, and a memorial in the Jewish Museum. We had a great tour guide Michelle, who helped us with the history dating back hundreds of years before WWII, and how the horrible treating of the Jews was no new thing.
The Cemetery is not very big at all, but has 15,000 people buried there, in about 5 layers. The tombstones are obviously very crowded, with about 12,000 accounted for. We learned about the Jewish Faith, and the similarities and difference with Christianity, which was extremely eye opening for me. Though Michelle, our Jewish tour guide, was talking to our whole group, I would usually find myself standing near the front and asking so many questions that it almost turned into a one on one conversation.
