David Vaughan

Our journey into the recent past as seen by the youngest generation continues with a classic tale of European emigration in search of the American dream.

In this new series we look at the recent past through the eyes of the youngest generation. Children and teenagers explore the rich world of their families' history.

Ida, Rudolf and Martin Wels are deported to the Terezín ghetto.  Nearly eighty years later, Colin Wels reads through their last correspondence.

No Night so Dark, Part 6

International politics is casting a long shadow over the Wels family. They find themselves trapped in occupied Prague, and only Tomáš manages to get out.

Rudolf Wels has qualified as an architect in Vienna and has been working in the office of the legendary Adolf Loos.  But in 1914 war breaks out. 

Welcome to Part Four of No Night So Dark. Trapped in wartime Prague, the architect Rudolf Wels takes us back to his happy childhood in Osek at the end of the 19th century.

In the third part of our serial No Night So Dark we join Colin Wels as he pieces together his family's past.  We are taken to the village of Osek and to 1930s Prague.

No Night So Dark - series telling the remarkable story of the Wels family. Part 2.

In the first episode we met Martin Wels and his parents in Prague in 1939.  In Part 2 we are drawn still further into the past, as one family story uncovers another.