However , less than century later , during reconstruction in 1950 – 1954 , the original floor-level as well as the appearance of the synagogue were restored . In following five years , the walls of the synagogue were covered with names of about 78 000 Bohemian and Moravian Jewish victims of Shoah . The names are arranged by communities where the victims came from and complemented with their birth and death date . The memorial was designed by painters Václav Boštík and Jiří John . In 1960 it was opened to public , but it was closed after less than a decade , in 1968 , after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia . It was said that the reason for closing was moisture . After the fall of communistic regime in 1989 the synagogue had been reconstructed for three years and then opened to public , but it took another three years to restore the inscriptions of the names on the walls that were damaged by moisture . Moreover , in 2002 , an old enemy of the synagogue – flood – proved its power and the inscriptions had to be restored again
Shoah
The Holocaust
Pinkas Synagogue