Current Affairs Czechs mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day victims - a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished during the Second World War - was marked in many parts of the Czech Republic - in synagogues, at public gatherings and in private, by families whose lives were directly affected by the Holocaust. Anyone passing through Prague’s Náměstí Míru on Wednesday could stop to take part in a public reading of the names of Holocaust victims. The event was organised by the Terezín Initiative Institute, the Czech Union of Jewish Youth and the Foundation for Holocaust Victims. I caught up with one of the organizers, Michal Frankl, and asked him to say a few words about this event:
Yom HaShoah, 2007, photo: www.fondholocaust.cz
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