The police are searching for the perpetrators intensively, Litomerice police spokeswoman Alena Romova said. If found guilty they face up to eight years in prison. Victims from the Gestapo prison in Terezin's little fortress, the Jewish ghetto in the town and the concentration camp in nearby Litomerice lie buried at the National Cemetery. Janousek said the thieves caused damage worth almost one million crowns which new plates made of resin will cost.
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Czech ex-deputy PM admits error in property statement - press ... the finances this year. The plates will definitely not be fully restored by May 18 when the traditional Terezin ceremony in memory of the Nazi persecution victims takes place at the cemetery. It is very complicated to watch the extensive cemetery. The memorial was considering installing a camera-monitoring system or hiring guards, but it did not have sufficient finances for such measures, Janousek said. Consequently, the memorial plans to replace the bronze plates with those of resin that will not attract thieves any more, Janousek added. During World War Two, the Nazis established the largest complex of concentrations camps on the territory of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia in Terezin. The former garrison town turned into a ghetto for European Jews from where regular transports were dispatched to extermination camps, and the nearby little fortress served as a Gestapo prison. The Terezin Memorial was opened in Terezin's little fortress in May 1947. ($1=15.714 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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