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Current AffairsSurvivors remember first transport to Terezín in winter of 1941
It's exactly seventy years since the first transport of Czechoslovak Jews
left Prague, bound for the garrison town of Terezín, transformed by the
Nazis into a ghetto and concentration camp. Some 140,000 Jewish men, women
and children were sent to Terezín, known as Theresienstadt in German; most
of them were later killed at Auschwitz. A number of events were held this
week bringing together Terezín survivors, one of them on Thursday evening
at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. More
Current AffairsMinister pledges to abolish pig farm at site of former concentration camp
For years, numerous Czech governments promised but failed to abolish an
infamous pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia, built in the 1970s at the site of
a former concentration camp. More than 1,000 Romanies were interned there
during World War II and more than 300 died there. But until now, all
efforts to abolish the farm, in favour of a proper memorial, have come up
short. Now, the newly-named minister for human rights and ethnic
minorities, Michael Kocáb, has expressed his own commitment to see the
project through. But many have questioned whether he can succeed, where so
many others have failed.
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