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We are publishing a chapter on the Jewish families who lived in Hořovice. You will read about merchants, doctors, printers and rabbis, and about their homes, businesses and synagogue. The chapter also records how their lives changed after 1939. The text is based on the original typescript and supplemented with corrections and recollections from...

The name Horowitz — appearing in numerous variants such as Horovitz, Hurwitz, Horwitz, Gurwitz, or Gurevich — is one of the most widespread and well-known surnames in the Jewish world. Behind this variety of spellings lies a single common origin: the small town of Hořovice in Central Bohemia.

The video, will take you on a journey from Dallas, to London, to Horovice, and then back to the Torah's new home The Dallas Holocaust Museum.