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Throughout this trip, I have realized that you can figure out so much about a place, the culture, and the people from a cemetery. We learned that depending on what Jewish symbol is on a grave, one can tell what time period the headstone was from. Furthermore, it was interesting to see that sometimes even Jews that were Czech would write in German on their headstones.

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The Lostice Synagogue serves today as a tool to teach about tolerance. One very prominent thing that stands out in the synagogue are three large stained glass windows. They are rare remnants of another synagogue that was destroyed on kristallnacht. The three that survived were in almost perfect condition and were moved to the Lostice synagogue.

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While visiting the Listice Synagogue today, now an educational site, we were able to open and explore the items and various trinkets in the drawer of the bench in front of us. These seemingly random items resembled the lives of Listice Jews who had lived there.  It was so amazing being able to peer into these people's lives by simply looking at little trinkets inside the the benches. To represent the family in my drawer was a variety of tailor's materials such as a swatch pad, sewing tools, and buttons. Sadly, these little items serve as one of the only memorials of these Jew's lives, otherwise eradicated.

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Today we visited the Jewish cemetery in the town of Loštice. We saw how some gravestones, generally the older ones, were in Hebrew, whereas the newer gravestones were in Latin script. It was interesting how the newer gravestones were in German rather than Czech, showing how the Czech Jews attempted to assimilate into German culture first, and only leaned toward Czech customs when the Germanic world remained hostile. The gravestones are an example of the cultural complications that arose from a mixed German-Czech-Jewish society which forced Jews to continuously reconsider their identity over time. This society that rejected the identity the Jewish people, isolating them into predetermined stereotypes, meant that the Nazis had significant support in many areas of Bohemia and Moravia because of the German influence, but the Jews were also assimilated to an extent so they complied with the orders of the Nazis more so than areas where the Jewish population was less assimilated, such as Poland.As well as analyzing the broader historical significance of the cemetery, it was interesting to walk through and look at the individual tombstones with the names and symbols that allude to each individual's character, imagining the unique story that is behind each grave.

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Today we visited to the town of Svitavy where entered a exhibition of the jewish community in this particular town. We met a Czech historian who told us about the life of Oskar Schindler and the full story about the, The Schindler's list. Oscar Schindler's stories was one of the most popular stories we could encounter during the Holocaust. His risk-taking attitude led him to become a hero to the democratic world by saving hundreds of jews for being persecuted in the concentration camps. He tricked the other Nazi officers to pretend the jewish prisoners were his and sent them to one of his factories where they were treated properly with the help of his wife. This is one of the two factories, Oskar Schindler had today that helped thousands of jews that survived the Holocaust. Today, sources said that this image has was demolished and one building is what's left of it. Although, the town of the Svitavy during the Nazi Regime was viewed as a "Nazi Town", today it's remembered by the world as where the Schindler's List was created by Schindler's clearks. Oskar Schinler will forever be remembered as one of the heroes of the Holocaust.

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Today we visited Lehim Synagogue. In this synagogue they had a unique memorial for the victims of the Holocaust from their town. This memorial consisted of pictures of the victims and certain household items which had some significance to their life. The memorial really showed you that these victims of the Holocaust were just like any regular person .

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Today in Lostice we visited a synagogue converted into a museum, and were able to learn more about individuals that lost ther lives from the village. The Rabbi Berthold Oppenheim was my figure. Being the rabbi of that community, he was one of the most important figures that they had living. He was taken with other members of his village to a death camp where the Nazi party eventually took his life, but not his legacy.

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Today we visited the Lostice synagogue. We sat down on benches that were recovered from the original synagogue that was taken over by German soldiers during the war. After listing to the history of the synagogue and the town Lostice, we were told to look inside the drawer placed in front of us. These drawers had names of victims of the Holocaust inside as sort of a memorial for those people, and one of the names in mine was Otto Wolf. Along with the names, there were different artifacts. It was so amazing to see what was in mine since I know the story of Otto Wolf and his family. There were pictures of Felicitas and Kurt, there was also a pair of glasses and a hand bag. There was also a newspaper from the time period, a recipe for something, and a paper from his journal

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After discussing change and continuity tonight, I thought back on the synagogue that we visited today in Listice. It was originally destroyed on Kristallnacht, but was restored more recently and is no longer a functioning synagogue, but is mainly being used for educational purposes. While the synagogue's purpose reflects change in the community, The building itself reflects continuity and preservation of the Jewish culture. First, as can be seen in the pictures below, when the synagogue was undergoing restorations, the walls upstairs, where the women would be seated, were stripped down to the original layer. There had been many layers of paint on top, but it was important to restore the original walls which looked like trees, maybe for the Tree of Life, a common symbol in Judaism. Secondly, the benches and stained glass windows in this synagogue came from a more prominent temple that was also destroyed, but these pieces survived. While they were not originally from this temple, they work as a symbol for the preservation of Jewish culture as a whole. And finally, the memorial boxes. Each seat in the benches contained a box with names of Holocaust victims from Listice and some of their belongings. Not only does this synagogue teach about Jewish culture, it also works as a memorial for those affected by this culture. However, by placing a Holocaust memorial in a restored synagogue, a contrast is created that delivers a much greater message; Our people cannot be defeated and those lost will not forgotten. Our culture will continue even if our purposes may change.

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Today on our way to Olomouc we stopped in the town of Svitavy. This town, although extremely small, is known as the birthplace of the famous Oskar Schindler. Schindler, the subject of the famous 1993 Spielberg film, is known for saving the lives of Jews during the Holocaust. In a museum dedicated to his life we learned that Schindler was an avid member of the Nazi Party, yet he protected his Jewish workers from deportation and death by employing them at his enamelware factory. By the end of the war, Oskar Schindler had saved the lives of 1,200 Jews, as listed in the picture below. The curator at the museum finished his presentation of Oskar Schindler with the statement, "He was a father, he was a friend, he was a God."

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We visited a town in Lostice where we walked into a synagogue. In there we meet Ludekstipel who told us about the town. We learned that in 1854 Fanny Neuda wrote the first Jewish prayer book for women. It was later translated in English. The synagogue was going to be destroyed towards the end of the 20 century until Ludekstipel got a hold of it. When you still down there is a draw in front of you. Inside you see a person or family that had died during the Holocaust. I had the fraudische sisters. There were several pictures of them and it also had things like buttons which showed they were into making clothes. There was also a pair of glasses which one of the sisters probably used. This was impactful to me because it showed how little things from the past can be a memory in the future.