Prague has been through its history home to people of various ethnic and religious backgrounds. The first written record of a Jewish presence in the city is from 965. Coexistence of Jews and the Christian majority has seen massacres, forced baptism, expulsions, and other forms of persecution of Jews by Christians, but such tragedies remained relatively isolated until Nazi’s ‘Final Solution’ that began in October 1941 and led to deportations and extermination of more than 90% of Jewish citizens of Prague.

Prague Jews contributed a great deal to the cultural, spiritual, and economical prosperity of the city.