MARIÁNSKÉ LÁZNĚ – MARIENBAD, LÁZNĚ KYNŽVART – BAD KÖNIGSWART

MARIÁNSKÉ LÁZNĚ – MARIENBAD

שלט הנצחה לזכר קורבנות השואה ובית הכנסת שנשרף

A memorial plaque burned synagogues and Holocaust victims

Lesni Str. 102 – Goethe Haus

Today only a plaque.

בית הקברות היהודי

The Jewish cemetery

49°57’51.613″N, 12°41’1.242″E

A German world-renowned philosopher Thedor Lessing, born in Hanover in Mariánské lázně found refuge after he had to emigrate because the Nazi regime in his native Germany. But Nazis found him here. He was assassinated the 30^th of August 1933. It was a huge affair of his time. He was the first victim of the Nazis in Czechoslovakia. This murder was reopened twelve years later and the murderer put into jail. There is a detective film about the whole thing called Shots from Mariánské lázně. At the local Jewish cemetery there are also tombstones from the cemetery in Spa Kynžvart which was canceled during the war. The cemetery is from the year 1875, yet functional.

LÁZNĚ KYNŽVART – BAD KÖNIGSWART

Potočni Str. 19

House of New York Mikveh

Mikveh is a ritual bath (before copying Torah scrolls it was necessary to be ritually washed)

בית הקברות היהודי

The Jewish cemetery

It does not exist – canceled after the Holocaust.

50°0’49.523″N, 12°37’40.216″E