articles by the author
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No Night So Dark: Part Seven
Ida, Rudolf and Martin Wels are deported to the Terezín ghetto. Nearly eighty years later, Colin Wels reads through their last correspondence.
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Czechia in 30 minutes (April 3, 2021)
No Night so Dark, Part 6
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No Night So Dark: Part Six
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.
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No Night So Dark: Part Five
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.
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No Night So Dark: Part Four
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.
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No Night So Dark: Part Three
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.
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Czechia in 30 minutes (March 6, 2021)
No Night So Dark - series telling the remarkable story of the Wels family. Part 2.
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No Night So Dark: Part Two
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.
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No Night So Dark: Part One
We explore a family’s search for its own past that was all but lost in the storm of 20th century history. We map 150 years in the life of a remarkable Czech family.
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A foretaste of our new series No Night So Dark
Here is a trailer to give you a flavour of our new series starting on Saturday 27 February that tells the story of five generations of a remarkable Czech Jewish family.