History
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1945–1948: Czechoslovakia’s road to Communism
A question that never ceases to intrigue Czechs: Could their country have joined the democratic fold of nations if the US army had liberated Prague in 1945?
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May 1945: Czechoslovakia at a crossroads
Historian Vít Smetana dispels some deeply-rooted myths perpetuated by the communists about what happened in the very last days of WWII in Czechoslovakia.
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Czech-American community in Chicago to commemorate Mayor Anton Cermak
The Czech-American community in Chicago will be marking 150 years since the birth of Anton Cermak, a Czech immigrant who became the mayor of Chicago in 1931.
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Paleolithic stone with engraving of mammoth and horse discovered in Ostrava
Archaeologists from the Moravian Museum in Brno have discovered a stone with an engraving of a mammoth and a horse, which dates back about 15,000 years ago.
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New educational project shows students what life in Gulag was like
Nw educational project shows primary and secondary school students what life in the Soviet Gulag camps was like.
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Czech-led archaeological team discovers “mini-Stonehenge” in Oman
Mysterious ritual sites, ancient burial tombs, and rock carvings. These are some of the exciting discoveries made by an expedition in Oman led by Czech archaeologists.
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Anniversary of the Week
Carlsbad Programme – the demand that opened the road to Munich and the end of Czechoslovakia
85 years ago, on April 24, 1938, Konrad Henlein of the Sudeten German Party voiced a list of demands commonly known as the Carlsbad Programme.
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From South Africa to Zlín: Brian Jakubec on rediscovering the Bata legacy that shaped his life
Brian Jakubec was born in South Africa, but his life was shaped by events that took place in far-away Czechoslovakia when his father joined the Bata shoe empire.
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“This is where my grandmother belongs” – Jewish family donates artwork to Brno museum
A portrait of a Jewish woman called Anna Wotzilkova, who was born in South Moravia and died in the Holocaust, has been donated to the newly planned Moravian Jewish Museum.
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Vysoké Mýto named Historic Town of Year 2022
The small town of Vysoké Mýto, in north-east Bohemia, has been named Czech Historical Town of the year for 2022.
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New memorial commemorates victims of Ploština massacre
On April 19, 1945, the Ploština settlement in Moravia was destroyed by the Nazis for having supported the anti-Nazi resistance. A new memorial commemorates the victims.
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Statue to fallen Czech soldiers of 1919 conflict with Poland to be resurrected
For 85 years, a monument to the fallen soldiers of the Polish–Czechoslovak War has been a list of names on slabs of stone. But it used to be dominated by a huge statue.
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