Czechs abroad
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Sylva Šimsová: Escaping to freedom all I thought about was survival – the fear came later
Sylva Šimsová was 18 when her father, a Social Democrat politician, told her the family had to escape from Czechoslovakia. It was 1949, a year after the Communists had…
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Ivan Hartl: A one-man international branch of the Czech underground
Ivan Hartl has been living in the UK since the late 1960s. From there he helped run banned literature into his native Czechoslovakia with Palach Press, as well as…
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Artist Hynek Martinec: To me Old Masters are contemporary
Hynek Martinec first came to international attention when a painting of his girlfriend Zuzana earned him the British National Portrait Gallery’s BP Young Artist Award in…
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Czechs in Oklahoma
The United States Census Bureau estimates that there are some million and a half Americans of Czech ancestry (and about 300 thousand more who declare Czechoslovak ancestry…
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Presidential contest engages Czechs abroad
Czechs living abroad will start casting their ballots in the second round of presidential elections on Thursday, a day earlier than in the Czech Republic. Polling stations…
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Ladislav Hornan: Locked up on spying charges in 1980s Prague as a UK citizen
Ladislav Hornan, who is chairman of the British Czech and Slovak Association, has enjoyed a very successful career and led one of the UK’s top accountancy firms for many…
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Jiří Šiftař: The Czech whose London photos helped make him huge on Instagram
With over a quarter of a million followers, Jiří Šiftař must be one of the most popular Czechs on Instagram. Going by the name Jeera on the photograph sharing service, he…
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Waiting for Brexit: Czechs in the UK look ahead to 2019
Like people from around the European Union, many in the United Kingdom’s sizable Czech community are waiting anxiously to see whether and how the country’s departure from…
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The fascinating story of Czech settlers who founded the farm town of Prague, Oklahoma
From Praha to Prague – Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town is an ethnic history by historian Philip D. Smith published this year by the University of Oklahoma Press. As a…
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Maori group to mark Havel’s visit to homeland
Prague’s O2 Arena is set to see a very special concert next week. One of the most popular Czech bands Chinaski will team up with the Whakaari Rotorua group from New…
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Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi – never far from home
Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi was born in Prague in 1932. As a member of the German-speaking minority in Czechoslovakia, she and her family were forced to flee the country at…
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Martina Formanová book spotlights dramatic Czechoslovak escape
Martina Formanová, the wife of the famous Czech director Miloš Forman, was recently in Prague to launch an audio version of her novel, called Případ Pavlína, or Case…
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