Czech clergyman proposes the readers themselves choose the names of Holocaust victims to be read on Yom Hashoah this year, whether Jewish or Romani
6.4.2021 9:03
Mikuláš Vymětal (PHOTO: Personal archive of Mikuláš Vymětal)
4 April was Easter Sunday for western Christians, as well as the eighth day of Passover, on which we remember the very sad anniversary of the biggest pogrom ever to take place in Prague in 1389, when a fanaticized Christian mob murdered three-quarters of the inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto. This history means that on the very same day, here and now, some of us were celebrating joyously while others were commemorating a tragedy.