Also present at the seminar was Jan Machala of the Czech Institute for the Study of
Totalitarian Regimes who gave a lecture on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia during the communist period. The one-day event, co-organized by the Embassies of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovak Republic in Bucharest under the Polish Presidency of V4-group, was attended by representatives of Jewish communities of the V4 member-countries, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania´s Parliament Valeriu Zgonea, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania Aurel Vainer and Director of the State Jewish Theatre Maia Morgenstern.