I ran across this interesting article [via YIVO] on how Tomas Jelinek, a Czech Jewish official, brought John Kerry news of the deaths of his paternal great uncle and aunt in the Holocaust.
Posted by jim at August 2, 2004 06:08 PM | TrackBackJelinek also was in New York to launch a fund-raising drive for a new $6 million senior home for Holocaust survivors in Prague, called Project Hagibor. The planned 60-bed facility aims to provide round-the-clock care for some of Prague's estimated 1,500 Holocaust survivors.
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel is behind the project.
“In the history of our country, the biggest killing of Czech citizens in one day happened in Auschwitz-Birkenau on March 8, 60 years ago,” Havel wrote in a letter of support for the project. “Entire families, including children, were killed. The only thing that made them guilty was being Jewish.”