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Jewish gravestones returned to cemetery in Prague

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Prague, Feb 12 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Martin Divisek) Fragments of looted Jewish gravestones which had been used as cobblestones in the streets of Prague will be preserved in one the city's Jewish cemeteries.The three stones, each about 10 centimeters in size, were desecrated during the communist era of what was then Czechoslovakia.FOOTAGE OF GRAVESTONES, OF PRAGUE AND SOUNDBITES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN PRAGUE FRANTISEK BANYAI.

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