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Magazine"Lost Neighbours" project
Among the many ads in today's newspapers and magazines is one that many readers will doubtless find intriguing. "Help us search for your lost neighbours" reads the caption beneath a set of faded, pre-war photographs. The "lost neighbours" in question are the thousands of Jews who were gassed or simply disappeared without a trace in the Holocaust. Although the process of establishing a data base has been going on for years -mostly based on information provided by Jews who survived the Holocaust- now the Jewish Museum in Prague has appealed to the broad public to help piece together the history of Jews in the Czech Republic and help give their "long lost neighbour" a face. Find out more in this week's Magazine. More
Current AffairsNazi war criminal sentenced
Former SS officer Julius Viel has been found guilty by a German court and sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting dead 7 Jewish prisoners from the Terezin concentration camp in March 1945. 56 years have passed since the event, Viel is now 83 years old, and some people ask whether there is any sense in punishing such an old man after more than half a century. According to the German media this is the last Nazi war crime trial. asked the secretary of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Tomas Kraus, whether he thinks this is the case:
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Current AffairsCamp for artists established in Terezin
A camp for artists and musicians has been set up in the former World War Two internment town of Terezin. The project - called the Terezin Intermediate Summer - has attracted a number of artists from across the world, with it's various workshops being housed in the town's disused army fortifications. traveled to the camp where he first spoke to the festival's main organizer, the glass artist Petr Larva: More
Current AffairsSpielberg commissions Czech Holocaust documentary
The Oscar-winning film Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is probably the most powerful account of the Holocaust ever produced. Some criticised the film for being over-emotive, even ham-fisted, but most applauded Mr Spielberg for bringing home the chilling, harrowing reality of the murder of six million people to a world which is slowly beginning to forget. But Mr Spielberg is not satisfied with the success of Schindler's List. The Hollywood director announced at the weekend that he and documentary film maker James Moll had assembled a group of international directors to make documentaries about the Holocaust set in five countries. One of them is the Czech Republic. has more More
