327 bronze nameplates stolen from the cemetery at Terezín Memorial

April 16, 2008

327 bronze nameplates were stolen from the cemetery at Terezín Memorial, a former Nazi concentration camp northwest of Prague, Mladá fronta Dnes newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Gardeners working at the cemetery were shocked to find the nameplates gone. Damage is estimated at 1 million Kč ($64,000).

Thousands of people died at the camp and thousands more were sent from there to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. (PraguePost)