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Ambassador Unveils Memorial to Slovak Holocaust Victims in Israel
Friday 18 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Nir Galim, December 18 (TASR) - In the Israeli kibbutz called Nir Galim, Slovak Ambassador to Israel Ivo Hlavacek unveiled on Friday a memorial plaque to the Slovak holocaust victims, TASR was told by the Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Peter Stano on the same day.
Also present at the ceremony was Slovak Honorary Consul Nathan Steiner.
Nir Galim in the 1940s and 1950s was home to many former Czechoslovaks emigrees.
During Hlavacek's visit he paid a call to the Yad Laad Testimony House museum, which is dedicated to Holocaust victims from the Central and Eastern Europe. And it was here that he unveiled the memorial plaque created by the late Michal Kern.
At the end of his visit, Hlavacek toured the kibbutz with its last Slovak inhabitant Moshe Steiner. Hlavacek also visited a solar power plant, the Adi watch-maker and an olive production plant.
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