Because the Jews were abused less here than elsewhere, the city's Jewish population grew as Jews fled persecution elsewhere. Due to the international nature of the Jewish population, the ghetto supported eight different synagogues, each for a different nationality. We visited three on a tour, which was quite interesting and highly recommended. You have to wear a yamulke at each one, and Somchai was much more fascinated at one guy on the tour who kept stealing his yamulkes rather than returning them when leaving each synagogue. He was going to make a citizen's arrest, but I talked him out of it.