The Dora Security agency offered its services to the memorial until May 18 as a sponsorship gift, Janousek said, adding that the stolen plates would be replaced by new, made of resin, as quickly as possible. Litomerice police spokeswoman Alena Romova said police had increased the number of patrols at the cemetery at the weekend to prevent new Jews file complaint over extremists' march in Czech town - TV ...
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radar treaty to include chapter on link with NATO ... thefts. The perpetrators have not been found yet though police uncovered several plates at a salvage point. Police announced the theft of the first 327 plates on Tuesday but later they found out that another 497 plates were missing. The perpetrators caused the damage worth 2.5 million crowns. It is not yet clear when the stolen plates will be replaced. The Memorial would like to do this by May 18 when the traditional Terezin ceremony commemorating Nazi victims will take place at the cemetery. A company to make new plates has not yet been chosen, Janousek said. 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. ($1=15.921 Czech crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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