{"id":1836,"date":"2019-11-18T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:09:06","slug":"prague-to-remove-stolen-jewish-tombstones-from-wenceslas-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/prague-to-remove-stolen-jewish-tombstones-from-wenceslas-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague to remove stolen Jewish tombstones from Wenceslas Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prague City Hall agreed on Monday to sign a memorandum pledging to remove fragments of <a href=\"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/pragues-communist-crimes-wenceslas-square-made-of-stolen-jewish-tombstones\/\">Jewish tombstones used as cobblestones<\/a> in the city centre and return them to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pedestrian zones on Prague\u2019s high street Na P\u0159\u00edkop\u011b and at the base of Wenceslas Square were repaired under Communism in part using tombstones from a derelict 19th century Jewish cemetery in Chomutov.<br> The work was reportedly carried out ahead of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev\u2019s visit to Czechoslovakia in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jewish community, which has for years called for the fragments to be removed, plans to deposit them in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague\u2019s \u017di\u017ekov district. 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