Locals commemorate Holocaust

Members of the Jewish and non-Jewish community commemorated the victims of the Holocaust at the former site of the Teplice synagogue on Tuesday. The head of the Teplice Jewish community told journalists that the event was meant to remind people of the six million victims of the Holocaust and that remembering them was important, especially since Holocaust deniers exist to this day. In the 1930s, some 5000 Jews who lived in Teplice were sent to concentration camps and the local synagogue was burned down by the Nazis. The memorial that stands at the site of the burned down synagogue has often been vandalized. Its current form has also been the subject of harsh criticism by politicians. Some say it does not do justice to the cruelty it commemorates and needs to be made over.