Czechs abroad
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Prague says no help for now for ethnic Czechs in Ukraine
The Czech government is not planning to provide any special assistance to the Czech community in Ukraine. The decision comes after around 40 families with Czech roots from…
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Czech expats in Ukraine want to repatriate to old country
Some 40 families of Czech expatriots from western Ukraine have asked the Czech government to help them repatriate to the old country, citing concerns about the future of…
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Ana Maria Janků: promoting Czech music is a link to my past
Ana Maria Janků was born in Argentina, but her link to her roots and in particular to Czech classical music is strong, thanks to the influence of her Czech parents. Today…
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Milan Schulz, exiled author, RFE broadcaster dies in Munich
Czech-born author, journalist and Radio Free Europe broadcaster Milan Schulz died in Munich on Monday at the age of 83. He emigrated in 1969 but the link to his homeland…
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CR 2 CR: floods forge stronger bonds between Czech expats and old homeland
Charity organizations say that Czechs are particularly generous in times of crisis – aid to tsunami, flood and earthquake victims has always been fast and generous, all…
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John Kerry’s brother visits their grandfather’s birthplace in northern Moravia
Cameron Kerry, the younger brother of the current US Secretary of State John Kerry, visited the Czech Republic with his wife this week. On Monday he went to the small town…
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Josef Svoboda - From uranium mine prison labourer to Arctic ecologist
Josef Svoboda is a professor, Arctic ecologist and author. Born in 1929 in Prague, Mr. Svoboda studied science and philosophy at Masaryk and Charles universities. He was…
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Karel Ulvr on his daring escape from communist Czechoslovakia, his greatest loss and his new life…
The 1948 communist takeover of Czechoslovakia radically changed people’s lives overnight. Those who refused to accept that change risked their lives to flee the country…
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Post-war Czechoslovak exile, overlooked chapter in nation’s modern history
The 20th century saw scores of Czechs and Slovaks leaving their country to escape political oppression. After the communist takeover of 1948, some 40,000 people left and…
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Portrait artist and painter Marie Gabánková
Marie Gabánková is a noted portrait artist, painter and teacher. She was born in Ostrava and left Czechoslovakia with her family shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968…
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Holocaust survivor Vera Egermayer : telling children my story helped me understand my own life
Like many child survivors of the Holocaust Vera Egermayer, started a new life in a new environment soon after the war. Her family moved to New Zealand when she was just…
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Prague school renamed in honour of Chicago’s Czech mayor
An elementary school in Prague now bears the name of the Czech-born former mayor of Chicago, Antonín Čermák. The renaming ceremony in his honour took place on Thursday…
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