Czechs abroad
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Facilities similar but Czech doctors have way more paperwork, says Prof. Jan Marek of Great Ormond…
Professor Jan Marek is a lead consultant in paediatric and prenatal cardiology at London’s famous Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. One of the top specialists in…
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Tomáš Bísek, Part 2: Language made ministering in Scotland tough
Tomáš Bísek spent 11 years as a clergyman in Scotland before returning to his native Prague in the mid-1990s. An early signatory of the Charter 77 protest document, the…
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Czech Honza and his Time Machine
For the third year now children of Czech origin living abroad are taking part in a competition that aims to help them connect with their roots. The Czech Honza competition…
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Tomáš Bísek, Part 1: Everything became black and white with signing of Charter 77
Protestant cleric Tomáš Bísek was forced to leave Czechoslovakia in the 1980s for his dissident activities and spent over a decade ministering in Scotland. His family had…
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Karel Weirich: the courageous journalist who saved hundreds of Jews during WWII
Karel Weirich is perhaps an unfamiliar name to most Czechs and to most of the world. Yet this modest man contributed in large part to keeping the world informed about the…
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Otto Jelinek, Part 2: Success in business and politics and return to Prague
Prague-born Otto Jelinek became Canada’s ambassador to the Czech Republic in 2013, six and a half decades after his family moved to the North American state from communist…
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Otto Jelinek, Part 1: Escape, tragedy and “incredibly emotional” triumph in Prague
Otto Jelinek (75) is in the highly unusual position of being ambassador to the city of his birth. Canada’s envoy to the Czech Republic was born in Prague during WWII but…
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New Jan Lukas exhibition reflects huge breadth of great photographer’s work
A significant retrospective of the work of the great Czech photographer Jan Lukas has just opened at Prague’s Art in Box gallery in connection with the centenary of his…
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Figure skating legend Ája Vrzáňová-Steindler dies at 84
Prague-born Ája Vrzáňová-Steindler, the women’s world champion in 1949 and 1950 in Paris and London, has died at the age of 84. At the height of her career, Vrzáňová…
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Lenka Lichtenberg, Part 2: Czech synagogue recordings perhaps biggest project of my life
Singer Lenka Lichtenberg was born in Prague where she was a child star with the Semafor theatre in the 1960s. Several years after her emigration to Canada, and well into…
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Lenka Lichtenberg, Part 1: Taste of freedom as ‘60s child star sparked later emigration
Prague-born world music artist Lenka Lichtenberg is today based in Canada and sings in many languages, including English, French, Hebrew and Yiddish. But many Czechs of a…
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James Ragan – the “Czechoslovak” US poet who spends every summer at Václav Havel’s old flat
James Ragan is a US poet, screenwriter, playwright and teacher with extremely strong Czechoslovak ties. Indeed some of his siblings were born in Eastern Slovakia before…
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