History
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Homage to Sir Nicholas Winton
In this Special, we pay tribute to Sir Nicholas Winton, the Briton who helped save the lives of 669 children by arranging their evacuation from Nazi occupied…
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Launch of RFE broadcasts from Prague recalled on 20th anniversary
Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Radio Free Europe broadcasts from Prague. The US-funded symbol of the Cold War had moved to the city’s former communist…
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Tribute to Czech football legend Josef Masopust (1931 – 2015)
Czech football legend Josef Masopust died on Monday, June 29. In tribute, Radio Prague is rebroadcasting this edition of Czech History from February 2011.
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Tests prove remains in mass grave belonged to “miracle” priest tortured to death in 1950s
Forensic tests have shown that remains removed a mass grave in Prague belong to a priest tortured to death by the communist secret police. Sixty-five years later, Josef…
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Second half of 17th century relative golden age for Irish Franciscans in Prague, says historian Jan…
The recently published The Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629–1786 offers a fascinating portrait of the college set up here by the order at a turbulent time in European…
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Czech episode of Nazi rocket science uncovered by historian
Germany’s use of long range rockets towards the end of WWII in a desperate but vain attempt to turn around the tide of the war, is a well known episode in history. So is…
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Havel was a hero who didn’t disappoint, says Art for Amnesty’s Bill Shipsey
This Thursday a bust of Václav Havel will be unveiled at Ireland’s Dáil (Parliament), making him the first non-Irishman to be recognised in this way. The man behind the…
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Pope Francis takes significant step forward with Jan Hus comments
Relations between Czechs and the Catholic Church have been strained for hundreds of years. One of the factors was undoubtedly the burning of the religious reformer Jan Hus…
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Albright unveils plaque to family members who perished in Holocaust on Terezín visit
The former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Friday paid a visit to the Terezín Memorial where she unveiled a plaque to members of her family who died in Nazi…
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Creators of 19th century Czech literary hoaxes deserve credit, says academic David Cooper
The Green Mountain Manuscript (Rukopis zelenohorský) and the Queen’s Court Manuscript (Rukopis královédvorský) were important texts in the Czech National Revival of the…
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Chemicals clean-up clears way for Holocaust memorial at Oskar Schindler site
The former factory in the small east-Bohemian town of Brněnec, where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews from the Nazi Holocaust, has been a sorry sight for years. The former…
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Jan Hus fit to face centuries to come after restoration comeback
The Czech Republic’s biggest and most famous statue of religious reformer and national hero Jan Hus is back on show in Prague after a painstaking renovation that should…
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