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BEST of EASTERN EUROPE 2007 By Rick Steves & Cameron Hewitt: 2007. Available at http://www.amazon.com Prague by Neil Wilson - Travel - 2007: Page 67 Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic by Hana Mastrini - Travel - 2004: Page 134 Cycle Europe: 20 Tours, 20 Countries by Jerry Soverinsky - Sports & Recreation - 2004 - Page 359
| Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic by Hana Mastrini & Alan Crosby, July 2002 From page 118: ". . . reliable. For those looking to visit the country's Jewish memorials, Wittmann Tours, Manesova 8, Praha 2, is probably the most authoritative tour service in Prague. Started in 1991 by Sylvie Wittmann, herself a Czech Jew, the agency has several information-filled . . ." Available at http://www.amazon.com |
Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe by Ruth Ellen Gruber - History - 2002 - Page 147
By Edgar Asher, Uncovering Prague's Jewish history, Washington Jewish Week, December 6, 2001. "...Sylvie Wittmann was born in Czechoslovakia in 1956 in what she describes as "deep communism". For Wittmann the fall of communism was the inspiration that was to enable her to establish Prague´s leading Jewish guide service, dedicated to educate and inform both Jews and non-Jews about the rich heritage of the country, as well as to explain the depths of cruelty and depravation suffered by the Jews at the hands of the Nazis in Theresiendstadt ..."
By Wendy Wasserstein, "An American in Prague", Travel & Leisure, November 1998. ...'Sylvie Wittmann, born in Northern Bohemia in 1956, has developed a small Jewish-Czech touring empire. What started with a weekly trip to Terezin, a transit camp for Jews built by the Nazis in an old fortress town about 40 miles northwest of Prague, has become a full-time effort to reclaim a history. It is well worth following Sylvie's troops through the Jewish Quarter.....'
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