The Czechoslovak Government has approved plans to redesign the memorial at the Theresienstadt concentration camp at Tereczin, Bohemia from which tens of thousands of Jews were sent to their death during the Nazi regime.
According to word received here today, the redesigning and reconstruction of the memorial will cost 10 million Czech kronen. Work has already begun at the site with priority being given to work on the Jewish cemetery which has in a rundown state.
The dominant feature of the new memorial will be a seven-branched Menorah. The present black marble memorial stone will be placed at the end of the Avenue of Nations. Other memorial tablets on the site will be preserved and incorporated into the overall design.
An estimated 140,000 Jews were deported to Theresienstadt by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945. Most of them were from Czechoslovakia, but some were from Germany, Austria, Denmark and Holland. Of the total 33,000 died while in Theresienstadt; 87,000 were deported to the gas chambers in Poland, only 3,000 were known to have survived.
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