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Members of the Jewish and non-Jewish community commemorated the victims of the Holocaust at the former site of the Teplice synagogue on Tuesday. The head of the Teplice Jewish community told journalists that the event was meant to remind people of the six million victims of the Holocaust and that remembering them was important, especially since Holocaust deniers exist to this day. In the 1930s, some 5000 Jews who lived in Teplice were sent to concentration camps and the local synagogue was burned down by the Nazis. The memorial that stands at the site of the burned down synagogue has often been vandalized. Its current form has also been the subject of harsh criticism by politicians. Some say it does not do justice to the cruelty it commemorates and needs to be made over.

Unknown vandals are reported to have damaged a memorial to Holocaust victims in the town of Teplice. A spokesman for the local Jewish community said he had found the memorial covered with spray paint on Wednesday morning. There were no abusive inscriptions. Police investigating the incident say it is not yet clear if the act was racially motivated. The memorial was raised on the site of a former synagogue burned down by the Nazis. Some 5,000 Jews formed ten percent of the town’s inhabitants before WWII. Most of them died in concentration camps.

The usual station announcements boom out of the loudspeakers at London’s Liverpool Street Station on Friday but, if you listen hard enough, you can hear some of the tens of extra policemen drafted on special duty, and the hiss of a steam engine that’s just arrived at platform 10. The Winton Train set out from Prague on September 1, transporting some of the Czech and German Jewish children saved from the Holocaust by Sir Nicholas Winton back along the route they traveled to safety in 1939. On Friday, the train arrived in London, and was greeted

Around 20 of the 669 mostly Jewish children saved from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by Nicholas Winton recreated their 1939 journey by steam train across Europe this week, arriving at Liverpool St on Friday morning. Sir Nicholas – now 100 years old - was there to welcome them. Also there on the platform was Štefan Füle, minister for European Affairs and a former Czech ambassador, and it was there at Liverpool St that he spoke to Radio Prague’s Rosie Johnston.

Sir Nicholas Winton has been referred to as the ‘British Schindler’. In 1939, as Europe was descending into war, he organised safe passage for hundreds of Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. All in all, Winton saved the lives of 669 children, finding them homes in the United Kingdom. On Tuesday, some of those he saved returned to Prague to take part in a train journey across Europe in his honour. I traveled with them on the first leg of the Winton Train’s journey:

Representatives of forty-six nations attending an EU conference on the Holocaust in Prague have agreed to press for a full restitution of Jewish assets stolen by the Nazis in World War II and provide social help for impoverished Holocaust survivors. The conference ended with the signing of a joint declaration urging that every effort be made to rectify the consequences of wrongful property seizures, such as confiscations, forced sales and sales under duress, which were part of the persecution of Jews during the war. The Terezín declaration – named after a Jewish ghetto – calls for some of the recovered property of Jews who did not have heirs to be used to help needy Holocaust survivors. The signatories have pledged to widen access to archives in order to make it easier to identify seized property. The five day conference on the Holocaust was the last event held under the Czech Republic’s six-month EU presidency.

The five-day conference on Holocaust era assets, held as the final major event of the Czech EU presidency, came to a close in Prague on Tuesday. Representatives of more than 40 countries around the world adopted the Terezín Declaration – a set of guidelines aimed at providing better care for Holocaust survivors, as well as at easing the restitution of property stolen during the Holocaust.

A conference on Holocaust era assets, which started in Prague on Friday, has called for assistance to impoverished survivors of the Shoa. The leader of the US delegation, Stuart Eizenstat, said on Sunday that “ten of thousands” of Holocaust survivors living in the United States, Central Europe and Israel, suffer from poor social conditions. Mr Eizenstat suggested some of the assets from heirless property whose owners died in the genocide should be used to provide assistance to the needy survivors.

The five-day conference is the last major event of the Czech EU presidency. It was launched on Friday by Nobel Peace Prize winner and concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel. A declaration is to be signed by the Czech EU Presidency and EU Commission concerning education about the WWII genocide of European Jews, care of survivors and preservation of monuments linked to the Holocaust.

A five-day conference centring on the return of property looted from Jews during WWII began in Prague on Friday. The conference – the last major event of the Czech EU presidency – was launched by Nobel Peace Prize winner and concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust Era Assets Conference is to take stock of moves so far to return property to victims and their relatives. A declaration it also to be signed by the Czech EU Presidency and EU Commission concerning education about the WWII genocide of European Jews, care of survivors and preservation of monuments linked to the Holocaust.

Prague is a hosting a five-day international conference on the return of looted WWII Jewish property. The conference has been billed as a last chance to clear obstacles that have prevented restitution to some of the remaining Holocaust survivors.