Following a reconstruction from the early 50s, the interior was adapted as a Memorial of Czech and Moravian victims of the holocaust. The names of the victims were written by hand and without templates on the main aisle walls, in the gallery and in the vestibule as the greatest epitaph by painters Jiří John and Václav Boštík. The names are lined alphabetically according to the towns of the last known address. There are about 40,000 people in the main aisle with the last address in Prague. If it was possible to find out family ties, then the victims from one family are next to each other. In 1968, the Memorial was closed due to increased humidity, whereas the inscriptions were damaged and gradually removed. During the 70s and the 80s, a deep insulation of the building’s foundations was carried out, the damaged truss was restored, and the attics depositories were built in. Calligraphic work on restoring the names of the holocaust victims did not start before 1992. The number of victims increased to nearly 80,000, and the search for others still continues. It is not only to remind the holocaust, but also to give human names to victims, who were only marked by numbers at the moment of death. At present, there is an exhibition of children’s drawings from the Terezín concentration camp
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