David Vaughan

Saturday witnessed a sad commemoration on the site of the village of Lidice, wiped off the map by the Nazis sixty years ago this month. Half the Czech government, as well…

One of the first people to vote as the polls opened in Prague on Friday afternoon was President Havel. In glorious spring sunshine, David Vaughan joined hordes of other…

Half the Czech government, as well as cultural figures and ambassadors from as far afield as Japan and Venezuela, attended a memorial ceremony and ecumenical mass on…

Sixty years ago this week, the Nazis wiped the Czech village of Lidice from the map. All the men were shot. Apart from a few who were adopted in Germany all the children…

For the third time in his political career, Vaclav Klaus has a strong chance of becoming Czech Prime Minister. Such is the delicate balance of power on the political…

Iva Pekarkova is one of those writers who observe life through living it. She has never been afraid of taking risks, whether as a rebellious teenager in 1970s…

In a recent edition of Central Europe Today, I looked at the German-speaking minority in the Czech Republic, but today I'm going to be turning things the other way round…

Katerina Tepla is one of the Czech Republic's foremost athletes. At the winter Paralympics in Nagano four years ago, the 29-year-old downhill skier came home with no less…

In 1942 Hana Lustigova, now Greenfield, was a teenager in the town of Kolin, east of Prague. Along with her mother and sister, she was sent by the Nazis to the Terezin…

We've chosen the following memory for this series, not just because it's a dramatic tale of the dangers of the mountains - taking place in the Krkonose Mountains that…