Unlike the bronze plates, they will not attract metal scrap thieves. As many as 824 bronze plates with the names of the victims of the Gestapo prison and ghetto in Terezin and the concentration camp in nearby Litomerice were stolen in April. The thief inflicted a damage of 2.5 million crowns on the National Memorial in Terezin.
He faces up to eight years in prison, if found guilty. Munk said the staff had Czech Terezin recalls last execution at Gestapo prison in 1945 ...
Czech police find all plates stolen from Terezin cemetery - press ...
Czech security agency guards Terezin wartime memorial ...
Czech police guard Terezin wartime memorial ...
Bronze plates stolen from graves at Terezin memorial cemetery ... promised to try and repair the cemetery before the Terezin mourning event scheduled for Sunday. The whole work should be completed after the summer holidays, he added. The Culture Ministry decided earlier this week to earmark money to install a camera system at the cemetery and to finance patrolling there. The Terezin prison and ghetto and the Litomerice concentration camp made the largest complex of its kind in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Some 220,000 people from all over of Europe passed through it during the war. Only about one third of them lived to see the end of the war. Some of the prisoners died in Terezin, others in extermination camps. The Terezin Memorial was established in Terezin's little fortress in May 1947. ($1 = 16.113 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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