A journey through the Padua ghetto, through spaces inside and outside the Museum, passing, for example, through the perhaps little-known Corte Lenguazza, which tell the story of the Great German Synagogue 80 years after its destruction.
On May 14, 1943, the Synagogue of Padua burned. It was the German Rite Synagogue, founded in 1522 in the heart of Padua's historic center in Via delle Piazze: it was the richest and most beautiful of the Jewish community's three prayer temples.
The fire eighty years ago was not a fortuitous accident, but a fire set by fascist militias, who wanted to deprive the Jewish Community, already the object of persecution and deportation, even of its sacred meeting place. Reviving that trauma, which wounded the whole of Padua, is an exhibition of period photos, documents and testimonies that have recently emerged from the Community's archives.
A few steps away from the Museum of Jewish Padua, also in Padua's ancient ghetto, is the Italian Rite Synagogue, the current place of prayer of the Jewish Community, since 1548.
Duration: 1h 15 min
