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Police find bronze plaques from Terezín vandalism

Guards now patrolling former Nazi concentration camp

April 16th, 2008 issue

(Updated April 22, 2008) Police have found about 800 broken bronze plaques in a scrap metal yard in the town of Nehasice, Mladá fronta Dnes wrote on Tuesday.

The plaques were stolen from the cemetery of the Terezín concentration camp last week in two separate incidents.

The metal weighed a total of 580 kilograms and was worth 2.5 million Kč ($161,290), the head of the Terezín technical department, Stanislav Krejný, told Mladá fronta Dnes. Officials will replace the plaques with plastic copies, he said.

Police are still searching for the thieves.

Since last week’s thefts, guards of the Dora security agency, have been patrolling the area. The guards are financed by the Culture Ministry and private donors. Plans are to keep the guard patrols through a scheduled memorial service on May 18.

Memorial officials are considering taking other increased security measures as well, following the vandalism, including installing security cameras in the cemetery.


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