History
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Czech Egyptologists report on rewarding work in the Land of the Pharaohs
Czech archaeologists have an impressive reputation around the world, working in many different countries. This week they all came together in Prague to swap notes, report…
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Ceremony honors Holocaust victims, Europe looks at tragedy's lessons
Holocaust Rememberance Day marks the 63rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Commemorations in honor of the victims were held throughout the Czech Republic, and…
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Zdenka Fantlova on her Holocaust experience: "We all have a blueprint"
On Tuesday, Jewish communities in the Czech Republic are commemorating Yom ha Shoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day which is observed around the anniversary of the Warsaw…
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Lidice: A village immortalised through tragedy
The massacre of Lidice, a small village just North West of Prague, on the night of the 9th of June 1942 was the darkest moment in Czech wartime history. Following the…
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Speculation over Rembrandt painting: is the old man Jan Amos Comenius?
Millions of people have admired it at the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence. Now, Rembrandt's painting of an old man has acquired a new significance for Czechs. According to…
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Husband & wife team airs new documentary about mysterious Incan stones in Peru
Vladimir Simek and Kamila Broulova-Simkova are a well-known husband & wife team that has been making TV documentaries in different parts of the world - from Baikal, Russia…
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World War II fighter ace Frantisek Perina honoured on occasion of 95th birthday
This week is a special one for the Czech military and Czechs remembering the events of the Second World War: Frantisek Perina celebrates his 95th birthday on April 8th…
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International conference held in Senate to discuss 1915 Armenian "genocide"
An international panel of academics and politicians met in the Czech Senate on Tuesday to discuss the mass killings of Armenian civilians in the Ottoman Empire between…
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Major General Karel Lukas: The first victim of the Communist purges of 1948
February 1948 brought great political change in Czechoslovakia. On the 25th of that month, the Communist Party took power and declared the country a "people's democracy…
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Foundation for Holocaust Victims announces conclusion of compensation programme
Czech Jews who lost their property during WWII have finally received compensation from the Czech state. In the course of five years, the Foundation for Holocaust Victims…
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Jaroslava Moserova - politician, doctor, writer and translator - dies aged 76
The veteran politician, doctor and literary translator Jaroslava Moserova passed away in the early hours of Friday morning after a long illness. She was 76. Jaroslava…
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Czechs and Rusyns: the ties that bind
National anthems are not just reserved for peoples with a state of their own. What you heard there is the national anthem of Subcarpathian Rusyns—or Ruthenians, as they…
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