Chatam Sofer Memorial
Underground rabbinic graves sealed in concrete beneath a road, now a restored Jewish pilgrimage site.
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This guide to the Chatam Sofer Memorial in Bratislava follows Moses Sofer, the Frankfurt-born rabbi who led Jewish Pressburg in the early nineteenth century, and the old cemetery below the castle where he was laid to rest. It moves into the Second World War, when the wartime Slovak state wanted that ground for a road tunnel, and into the communist decades that followed. Best heard standing by the tram stop outside the memorial.
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