Current Affairs Usti nad Labem unveils Holocaust Memorial

11-10-2005 15:16 | Dita Asiedu

It has been sixty years since the end of the Second World War but it was not until last Sunday that the northern Czech industrial town of Usti nad Labem unveiled a memorial dedicated to the 1,000 Jewish residents who perished in the Holocaust. It is one of the most striking memorials in Europe - a massive granite Star of David half immersed into the site of a former Jewish cemetery. It is simple but powerful.

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