Prague cobblestones made from Jewish headstones returned to community – ‘Return of the Stones’ monument part of larger effort to address desecration of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe after the Holocaust | Timesofisrael

JTA — During and after the decimation of Eastern Europe’s Jewish populations in the Holocaust, even the dead were not spared: locals, their Nazi occupiers and their communist rulers looted Jewish cemeteries for headstones and used them to pave roads and build countless public buildings, including schools, park pavilions and even churches.