Photogallery 02.12.2007
Ceremony of the Dedication of the Jewish Memorial in Strakonice on October 10, 2007

With the anniversary of the transports of Jewish citizens to Terezín there was a ceremony of dedication of a memorial devoted to all the Jewish people murdered in the camps of concentration or killed on the marches of death during the WWII. On the day October 10, 2007 quite a lot of people came to remember their former citizens of whom only one has lived so far, only one of those few who survived holocaust – Mrs. Eva Václavíková from Strakonice. The music was provided by the Ester Duo, and then the mayor of the town pronounced a speech where the enormous deserts of the former Jewish citizens were declared, their credit of industrial development of the town, by them-founded factories have still been working so far. The mayor also reminded the destruction of the natural centre of the town with a square, a Jewish ghetto, but especially an old large and beautiful synagogue during the totalize era of the communist party. The large photographs were placed at the place to give a chance to see those territories in their pasted beauty. He also highlighted the significance of
a centre and a central square for a town and promised the restoration at least in the frame of today’s possibilities. The memorial was blessed with songs and speech of the Cantor of
a liberal Jewish community Bej-simcha, Mgr. Michael Foršt, who together with the mayor revealed the memorial, and, together with the only Jewish citizen of the town , Mrs. Václavíková, put a small stone of remember on the memorial instead of flowers according to the Jewish custom.