A memorial meeting was held in the old synagogue in Prague to commemorate 5,000 Czech Jews murdered by the Nazis on the height of March 8, 1944 at the Birkenau concentration camp, according to a Prague radio-broad cast. Rabbi Emil Davidovic officiated.
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