Prague Jewish Cemeteries Outside the Jewish Quarter Private Tour

Over the centuries, there were apparently ten Jewish cemeteries in Prague. Most of them have often survived only in fragments, or the tombstones lie underground. Only one of them remains in use, and alongside the world-famous Franz Kafka, other notable figures are buried there, such as the writers Arnošt Lustig, Ota Pavel, and Ivan Klíma. Join us in visiting the site of Prague’s oldest Jewish cemetery, the New Jewish Cemetery, or the cemetery upon which part of the Žižkov Television Tower was built. If you book a car-based tour in advance, it is also possible to arrange a visit to the charming woodland Jewish cemetery in Smíchov. 
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Prague Was Franz Kafka and Franz Kafka Was Prague Private Tour

In Kafka’s books, Prague became a labyrinth of bureaucracies, a symbol of absurdity, and a truly mystical city—and it remains so to this day. Join us as we explore where he was born, lived, and wrote, and where he is buried, as well as how Prague artists perceive his legacy; anyone visiting Prague simply must stop by the famous *Head of Franz Kafka*. The rotating *Head of Franz Kafka* sculpture stands in the courtyard of the Quadrio shopping center, right next to a complex of historic buildings at the corner of Spálená and Vladislavova Streets (known as the Olympic Garden or the General Directorate of the Insurance Company Palace). This building originally housed the Assicurazioni Generali insurance company, where Franz Kafka began his very first job as a clerk in 1907. Although he worked there for less than a year (before moving to the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute on Na Poříčí Street), the location played a pivotal role in shaping his aversion to soul-crushing bureaucracy. The entire area surrounding present-day Vladislavova, Purkyňova, and Jungmannova Streets was once the site of Prague’s oldest Jewish cemetery—known as the “Jewish Garden”—during the Middle Ages (from the 13th century until 1478). The fact that the head consists of 42 independently rotating layers alludes both to Kafka’s novella *The Metamorphosis* and to the constant movement of the human mind. At the same time, the number evokes the famous answer given by the supercomputer in *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*—where a supercomputer named Deep Thought found the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” after 7.5 million years. When the day of the result announcement arrived, the computer announced to everyone that the answer was 42.
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History of Holocaust Prague Private Tour

In addition to the famous memorial in the Pinkas Synagogue—where the walls are covered with the names of 77,297 victims of Nazi tyranny—one can also visit the Praha-Bubny railway station in Prague, which is gradually being transformed into the Memorial of Silence. It was from here that approximately 50,000 Prague Jews were deported to ghettos and extermination camps starting in October 1941. The site is dominated by a monumental sculpture by Aleš Veselý titled *Gate of Infinity* (Brána nenávratna), which rises toward the sky in the form of railway tracks.  We will take you to other sites reminding victims, f.i. Memorial to Victims Deported to the Łódź Ghetto in the New Jewish Cemetery, or places reminding Nicholas Winton, that saved We will also take you to places associated with Nicholas Winton, who saved 669—predominantly Jewish—children in 1939. F.i. nn Platform 1 of Prague’s Main Railway Station, you will find a memorial dedicated to the parents of the children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton. It features a faithful replica of the doors from a 1939 train, bearing the handprints of the children on the inside and the parents on the outside.
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Tracing the Footsteps of the Prague Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key architects of the Holocaust 

In January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was indeed the principal chairman and organizer of the infamous Wannsee Conference. As head of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and the plenipotentiary for the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” he convened and led this meeting of fifteen high-ranking Nazi bureaucrats and SS officers. The “Heydrichiad” refers to the period of the most brutal Nazi terror and repression in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It is directly linked to the tenure of the Acting Reich Protector, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, and the aftermath of the successful assassination attempt against him. We will take you to the actual site in the crypt of an Orthodox church where, after 21 days in hiding, the paratroopers fought their final battle against overwhelming odds—facing a Waffen-SS force a hundred times their size. An exhibition by the Military History Institute is located here (admission is free). The Kobylisy Shooting Range Memorial Site: A former military shooting range in northern Prague transformed into a memorial, where the Nazis executed nearly 540 people during the period of intensified repression following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (including the writer Vladislav Vančura and Františka Plamínková, chairwoman of the Women’s National Council). Operation Anthropoid Memorial (Libeň): A modern, sharply angular steel monument standing on the curve near Vychovatelna in Prague 8, exactly at the spot where Gabčík and Kubiš attacked Heydrich as he drove past.
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