(2024-06-06/07) Banská Bystrica no longer has a synagogue, so I make a small detour via Banská Štiavnica to visit the renovated synagogue there; only from the outside, as the private brewery ERB, the new owner, has set up its offices inside. They run a luxury hotel, an inn and a gift boutique on site. Looking at the inflated bill for my snack, I'm sure I've paid my share of the renovation costs. Onwards along picturesque mountain paths to Banská Bystrica. The town is proud of the fact that it was at the heart of the Slovak National Uprising, which was directed against the German Wehrmacht and its local collaborators in the fall of 1944. Like the Warsaw Uprising, it was crushed. “The Garden of Haviva Reick” is dedicated to Haviva Reick, the resistance fighter and parachutist who returned from Palestine to take part in it. Nevertheless, I can't shake off the impression that the Jewish resistance is being instrumentalized to some extent for the Slovakian cause. In any case, Russia and the Red Army still have a good name here, as evidenced by the World War II exhibits in the museum and the obelisk in honor of the fallen Soviet soldiers on the central Square of the Slovak National Uprising.
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