(Czech Republic) Former Schindler's factory in Brněnec to be Holocaust memorial
Source: CTK / Prague Monitor
ČTK | 11 AUGUST 2016
The Czech Endowment Fund Memorial of Shoah and Oskar Schindler wants to turn a former factory and concentration camp in Brnenec into a memorial to the Holocaust victims, board head Jaroslav Novak has told CTK.
During World War Two, German industrialist Oskar Schindler (1908-74) employed in the factory Jewish workers brought from Poland by which he saved more than 1000 people from death.
The current owner of the complex has promised to provide a part of it for the fund and the local self-rule authority also supports the project.
Novak said the revitalisation of the dilapidated building has a big economic potential in addition to the cultural-historical importance.
Read more: http://praguemonitor.com/2016/08/11/former-schindlers-factory-brněnec-be-holocaust-memorial
The Holocaust of the Romany (Gypsies) gets no such respect, however:
Czech Republic: Pig farm at Lety will apparently remain on Romani Holocaust site, talks are going nowhere
The pig farm currently occupying the site of the former concentration camp for Romani people at Lety by Písek will apparently remain there. Czech Human Rights Minister Jiří Dienstbier (Czech Social Democratic Party - ČSSD), who has led several negotiations with the owner, says no concrete conclusion has arisen from the dialogue.
At the sites occupied by the pig farm today there was a camp during the Second World War in which more than 300 Romani people perished. The victims today were remembered at the nearby memorial by the surviving relatives and the public during a commemorative ceremony at Lety, which was attended by Dienstbier and by Czech Justice Minister Robert Pelikán (ANO).
"We are acting on this matter, but at this moment there is no fundamental change to discuss. We want a dignified sacred site here. It is understandable that for the surviving relatives of the victims it is unacceptable that a pig farm is standing at such a place. Try to imagine something of the sort, for example, at Auschwitz," Dienstbier said.
http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-republic-pig-farm-at-lety-will-apparently-remain-on-romani-holocaust-site-talks-are-going-nowhere
