An amendment to a Czech law that would have extended the date of the Nazi art law failed to make it to the country’s Parliament for a vote. The chairman of the Czech Federation of Jewish Communities, Tomas Kraus, said he is alarmed that what he had thought would be a an easily approved extension was rejected in committee.
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