Senate ceremony marks Holocaust Memorial Day

A ceremony was held at the Czech Senate on Tuesday marking Holocaust Memorial Day. Hundreds of people who survived Nazi concentration camps attended the memorial, held on the 64th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Others in attendance were the Czech Republic’s chief rabbi Karol Sidon, the head of the Czech Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, and the new minister of human rights and minorities, Michael Kocáb.