Czech Jewish community leaders paid homage to more than 3,000 Holocaust victims from a Czech town. In Sunday’s memorial service at the Jewish cemetery in Olomouc conducted by Czech Chief Rabbi Karol Sidon, Jewish community representatives also lit candles for the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
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