The Czech Culture Ministry declared the Hartmanice Synagogue a national heritage site. The only synagogue of several dozen in the Sumava Mountains to survive the Nazi and Communist regimes reopened in May as a cultural center and museum that testifies to Czech-Jewish-German cooperation before World War II.
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