Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany and President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia paid tribute Wednesday to what Kohl called “the common past of Jewish heritage” in their countries.
The two national leaders opened an exhibition at the chancery in Bonn called “Judaica Prague.” It consists of 100 art objects and religious artifacts loaned by the state-run Jewish Museum in Prague.
The display included pictures drawn by Jewish children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II.
About. 1,200 guests attended, among them politicians, writers, artists and diplomats. Germany’s chief of state, President Richard von Weizsacker, was present.
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