"A private security agency will guard the premises as from Monday," Cieslar said, adding the agency has offered its services for free as a sponsor's gift. The agency guards will protect the memorial until May 18 when the traditional Terezin ceremony in memory of the Nazi persecution victims takes place at the cemetery. By then, the plates with the victims' names that unknown perpetrators recently stole should return to the cemetery, Terezin Memorial director Jan Munk said. Cieslar said a project of the memorial protection is being prepared, including a camera-monitoring system. The Culture Ministry will earmark finances from Czechoslovakia’s Second Republic: a vain attempt to put the pieces together ...
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The ministry will also launch a tender for the memorial protection. A total of 824 bronze plates with the names of wartime victims have been stolen from the National Cemetery in Terezin. The total damage incurred amounts to 2.5 million crowns, the local police said. The police have already found several plates at a salvage point, but they have not caught the thief. If found guilty, the perpetrator faces 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. During World War Two, the Nazis established the largest complex of concentration 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 established in Terezin's little fortress in May 1947. (USD1=15.738 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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