Czechs abroad
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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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Caritas helping ethnic Czechs from Ukraine build a new life in their old country
The repatriation of ethnic Czechs from Ukraine who asked to return to their old homeland over the unstable situation in their country began earlier this year. Close to one…
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Czech ambassador stresses need to counter anti-immigrant arguments in Britain
The British vote in general elections today which most polls predict will be too close to call. Almost certainly, no single party, neither Labour nor the Conservatives…
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Czech Roma police officer to receive OBE from Queen Elizabeth II
Petr Torák, a Czech Roma who moved to the UK in 1999, is to be honoured with an OBE for his outstanding work as a police officer. Torák, who was targeted by neo-Nazis in…
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Czech researchers probe secret Soviet era archives in Ukraine
Czech historians and researchers are trying to benefit as fast as possible from a new open access policy to the former Soviet archives in Ukraine. One lesson that has been…
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