David Vaughan

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…

The Museum of Decorative Arts has recently held an exhibition called Fabric of Fashion, where contemporary fashion and textile design in Britain was introduced to visitors…

When he was three years old, Herbert Werner and his family were expelled from Czechoslovakia. His mother was Czech but his father was German. We have heard a lot in…

Amid the debate about the millions of ethnic Germans who were expelled from the countries of Central Europe after World War Two, it's easy to forget that there are also…

We often complain about the times we live in, but in Prague today we are lucky. It was only a little over three decades ago that city experienced one of the bleakest…

The Arts: this week looking at the One World festival - an international celebration of documentary film - and at an English speaking competition for Czech secondary…

The American journalist Alan Levy is editor-in-chief of the English language weekly The Prague Post. He came to Prague in 1968 at the time of the Prague Spring, and his…

In 1989 Vaclav Bartuska was a student. The Berlin Wall fell on the 9th November, and in the days that followed voices for change became ever louder in communist…

And now for the first in our new weekly mini-series, in which David Vaughan lets people speak for themselves. People who have experienced moments of drama, excitement or…