Czechs abroad
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Low on vacation time, Americans want the highlights when they visit Czechia, says marketer Jiří…
Visit Czech Republic posts wonderful photos on social media aimed at lovers of the country and potential first-time travellers to this part of the world. In North America…
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Václav Havel Library Foundation head Pavla Niklová: US students are still excited something like…
The Václav Havel Library in Prague follows the US presidential library model in gathering and archiving materials relating to the late Czech dissident turned head of state…
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Peter Sis: Political events are giving my stories about parents and children fresh meaning
Peter Sis has had a very successful career. His illustrations have appeared in countless prestigious publications, while his children’s books, such as The Wall: Growing Up…
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Paul Ort: Three times the Gestapo came for my brothers and me – three times my father fobbed…
Dr. Paul Ort’s mother and grandfather were murdered by the Nazis in reprisals that followed the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. A childhood friend of Vaclav Havel’s…
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Photographer Marie Tomanová: These people bent down and saw me in the tree trunk and I was like, Hi!
US-based Czech photographer Marie Tomanová is known for her striking portrait work and often nude images of her own body interacting with nature. Right now Tomanová’s…
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Martina Forman: “Miloš was a great, great man – great company”
Novelist and screenwriter Martina Forman settled in the United States in the 1990s after meeting her husband, the great film director Miloš Forman. When we spoke at her…
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The Bohemian National Hall: NYC’s “focal point of everything Czech”, in the early 20th century and…
New York’s Bohemian National Hall brings together the most important Czech institutions in the city. The Czech Center, Consulate General and other organisations share the…
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Major honour for Czech-American businessman Fred Malek
This year’s Václav Havel Award for the Advancement of Civil Society handed out by the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 has gone to Fred Malek, one of the most…
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John Tusa: Our modernist Baťa estate in UK was exact model of what we’d left behind in Zlín
Sir John Tusa anchored the top UK current affairs show Newsnight in the 1980s before heading the BBC World Service for seven years. Though today a member of the British…
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Czechoslovak centenary celebrations held the world over
Celebrations marking the centenary of the birth of Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1918 are taking place not only in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also among Czech…
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Norma Zabka: Attending Sokol New York since the early 1930s
Norma Zabka was born 90 years ago in the heart of what was then the heavily Czech district of Yorkville on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Though now possessed of a soft but…
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Minister at UN: Chicago connections were key to foundation of Czechoslovakia
The Czech deputy prime minister, Jan Hamáček, referenced key moments in the country’s modern history in an address to the UN General Assembly on Saturday. In an interview…
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