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Prague holds forum to mark end of Holocaust

Xinhua, January 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

An international forum to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust was held here on Monday.

The forum, which is a two-day event, is held at the Prague Castle, the Czech presidential seat. Czech President Milos Zeman and Slovak President Andrej Kiska, together with more than 30 chairpersons and vice chairpersons of Czech parliament, attended the forum.

Both Zeman and Kiska paid tribute to the Holocaust victims at the National Cemetery in Terezin on Monday.

It is necessary to always remember the horrors of the Holocaust, said Kiska.

According to Kiska, he had realised what brutalities had taken place in Terezin during World War II when he visited Terezin for the first time at the age of 12.

Nazis sent about 155,000 Jews across Europe to the Terezin ghetto from 1941 to 1945. About 117,000 of them did not live to see the liberation.

A big remembrance event is scheduled to be held in Terezin, the Czech Republic on Tuesday afternoon, the anniversary day of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Endit