Synagogue Museum (Sinagoga Muzel)

When the Jews were forced to leave Spain in 1492 several of them ended up here. By 1546 Zudioska ulica (Jewish Street) had become a ghetto. Today the street is home to the second oldest continually functioning synagogue in Europe that contains Croatia’s only Jewish museum. The synagogue with lattice windows separating the women from the men is on the top floor. Below it is the museum, full of Torah’s and shawls and poignant memorabilia from the Nazi era: armbands and written orders stating that Jews were to identify their businesses.  Only 4,000 of Croatia’s 24,000 Jews survived the Second World War.