Still in Prague

We started our day with a tour of the Jewish Quarter in Prague.  Our guide, Vida didn’t know she was Jewish until she was 14.  Her dad, as a young man was in several concentration camps including nearby Terizen, a  holding camp and Auschwitz.  Her mom was given to friends and was raised as their Christian daughter.  In the Jewish quarter...the Jews were forced to live in a ghetto, they were only allowed to bury in a small cemetery so 200,000+ bodies were buried one on top of the other, 12 deep.  The Jews in Prague were made to live separately for hundreds of years.  Whenever they left the ghetto, they had to wear yellow or a yellow hat.
Hitler believed Prague would be a German city.  He had plans to move to Prague and didn't destroy it. He had the Jewish artifacts sent to and  saved in Prague and was collecting things for his “museum of  an extinct people” thus many things were saved.  There were 350,00 Jews there at one time.  Now there are 3,000 registered Jews living in Prague, more unregistered.
        We went to Prague Castle where I took a headset tour and Kay had museum fatigue (an illness that comes on quickly) so he sat and waited for me.  For dinner we took a tram to a small restaurant we saw an advertisement for… a $5.00 dinner special, outside of the tourist area.  We were pleased with our meal!