(Wallern)

Czech Republic

photographs taken by your webmaster in 1996 and 1997

a place to remember with reverence
noted for two historic events on May 5 and May 7

we liberated 118 Jewish girls from a Death March on May 5
the last American casualty in the ETO occurred on May 7

your webmaster at the city hall building
in Czech and English the plaque reads

"May 5th 1945"
"The U.S. Army Liberated Volary"

Mary Robinson poses in front of the city hall
for this picture taken in 1994 by her husband Bernard
the Jewish Girls returned for a 50th reunion in 1995

Mayor Svatopluk Vokurka
and his charming wife Jan
in the Jewish Girls museum room
can you identify the t-shirt

the mayor (again) and your webmaster (1998)
in front of the city hall

Jewish survivor Gerda Klein and family
eating lunch with your webmaster and the mayor

Gerda is dressed in blue
her husband Kurt is wearing a white shirt
the mayor (smiling) is seated on the left

Gerda is famous for her book
ALL  BUT MY LIFE
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Hill and Wang

South Bohemian Wood and Furniture factory
where the girls were abandoned by the Schutzstaffel (SS)

the wooden barracks where your webmaster
discovered the girls was located here

cemetery for 22 Jewish girls who died
from malnutrition between May 4 and May 7

Czech border rats at their tourist flea markets
North Korean laborers imported by the Communists
who are not wanted in the new democracy