Saturday, June 23, 2007


After we departed from the prison we visited a Jewish cemetary nearby which Janko has a special interest in. Janko studied Hebrew in University and is a caretaker of a similar Jewish cemetary in his own village. Apparently the history of these circumstances stretch back again to WWII. Historically there has been a fairly significant Jewish population in Czechoslovakia. However when the Nazis came through and began rounding up and deporting Jewish people to concentration camps many other Jews fled the region before they were captured.

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