Czechs abroad
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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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Czechs living in US call for introduction of postal vote
The Czech parliament is set to debate a proposal that would make it easier for Czechs voting in elections abroad to cast their vote by post. A Czech community in the…
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Suzanna Halsey: I organised New York celebration of Velvet Revolution from offices of Penthouse
Suzanna Halsey is one of the most active members of the Czech community in New York and describes herself as an inveterate organiser. Alongside teaching Czech and other…
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