Campo San Biagio

Venice 2015

Including our day trip to Murano, Torcello, Mazzorbo and Burano.
Holocaust Memorial 4

Holocaust Memorial 4

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Campo de Gheto Novo. 247 Venetian Jews were deported to concentration camps. Only eight returned at the end of the war.
Campo de Gheto Novo

Campo de Gheto Novo

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At one time, 5000 people lived in the ghetto. www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/venice-ghetto
Pawnshop

Pawnshop

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The oldest pawnshop in the world. Jews were allowed to engage in only a few occupations, money lending being one. Since the population was largely illiterate, each pawnbroker used a different colored paper for their receipts. Banco Rosso used red slips, and thus the phrase "in the red" was born.
Banco Rosso

Banco Rosso

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The oldest pawnshop in the world. Jews were allowed to engage in only a few occupations, money lending being one. Since the population was largely illiterate, each pawnbroker used a different colored paper for their receipts. Banco Rosso used red slips, and thus the phrase "in the red" was born.
Museo Ebraico

Museo Ebraico

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The Jewish Museum
Additions

Additions

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I think the room on the left is a small synagogue. Venetian law at one time prohibited the building of separate synagogues, and Jewish law required that there be nothing between the congregation and the heavens.
Signs

Signs

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Gam Gam is the first kosher restaurant in Venice.
Ponte de Ghetto Vecchio

Ponte de Ghetto Vecchio

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Each of the two entrances to the Jewish ghetto had large gates, which were locked every night. You can see where one of the hinges used to be.
Ghetto Gate Hinge Slot

Ghetto Gate Hinge Slot

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Each of the two entrances to the Jewish ghetto had large gates, which were locked every night. You can see where one of the hinges used to be.
Adolfo Ottolenghi Plaque

Adolfo Ottolenghi Plaque

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Rabbi Adolfo Ottolenghi was deported by the Nazis and died in 1944.
Synagogue Plaque

Synagogue Plaque

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Calle Ghetto Vecchio, outside the old gated ghetto.
Synagogue

Synagogue

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Calle Ghetto Vecchio, outside the old gated ghetto.
Hells Angel 1

Hells Angel 1

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Shopping for tourist tat.
Hells Angel 2

Hells Angel 2

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Shopping for tourist tat.
Rio della Misericordia

Rio della Misericordia

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Stork

Stork

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Fondamenta Ormesini
Moschini & Ippolito-Berton

Moschini & Ippolito-Berton

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Found face door buzzer
Venetian Lion

Venetian Lion

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A rather fierce lion of Venice in stone.
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