Word: labem
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...Vaclav Houzvicka, a sociology lecturer at J. E. Purkyne University in the northern city of Usti nad Labem, says he's not surprised by the public response. Numerous surveys in recent years have shown that around two-thirds of Czechs remain wary of Germany, despite their country having entered the E.U. and NATO, he said. Moreover, the issue of the deported Germans is still emotionally charged. "The layer is so thin that it is sufficient to press one button and it is all back," he says...
...northeastern corner of the Czech Republic. Armed with a flashlight, he crouches in front of one of the 300 or so tombstones, transcribes its inscription and makes notes on the shape and condition of the stone. Haidler, 43, a part-Jewish theater-troupe director from Ústí nad Labem, a post-industrial city in the north of the country, has been documenting tombstones around the country since 1999 in an attempt to preserve what is in a sense the last surviving record of Jewish life in the region. "These stones are often the only archives left following destruction...
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