Czech Jewish community experiences rebirth after fall of communism

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Czech Jewish community experiences rebirth after fall of communism - 27-01-2006 - Radio Prague
The Czech Republic marks Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945. Some 80,000 Bohemian and Moravian Jews perished in the Holocaust, and before the community could even start recovering from the war, the communist regime practically froze its activities. It was not until the fall of communism in 1989 that the Czech Jewish community could start to rebuild.

An interesting interview with the director of the Prague Jewish museum.

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