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According to Wikipedia, the Jewish population in Prague in the 17th century was approximately 15,000, or 30% of the city’s population. And, according to the Virtual Jewish Library, by 1939, the Jewish population was approximately 90,000, 20% of the population; at least 2/3 perished in the Holocaust. It is estimated (Jewish People Around the World website) that there are now about 5000 Jewish residents in Prague). More than 60 synagogues across Czechoslovakia were destroyed. We visited the few remaining in what was the Prague ghetto.