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Czech Holocaust survivor Lisa Miková, 98, awarded Germany’s highest honour
Lisa Miková, a 98-year-old Czech woman who survived internment in Terezín, Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, has been awarded Germany’s highest honour, the…
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“Einstein in Bohemia” – Part II: how alienation in ‘half-barbaric’ Prague led him to a new theory…
When Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Prague in early April 1911 to take up his first full professorship teaching theoretical physics, he was not yet world-famous…
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Archaeologists unearth seven graves dating back to Great Moravian Empire
Czech archaeologists have announced a significant discovery in South Moravia, on what used to be the territory of Great Moravia. Working at a location in Staré Město near…
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“Einstein in Bohemia” – part 1: how a Prague sojourn sparked his theory of general relativity…
Albert Einstein’s tenure as a professor of theoretical physics in Prague is often noted in passing – as an “interlude” or a “sojourn” of no great significance, even though…
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Valentine’s Day 1945 - When the Americans bombed Prague
Exactly 75 years ago, on Valentine’s Day 1945 two confused bomber groups of the USAF accidentally bombed Prague. The raid killed hundreds of Czechs and left over a…
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Film about tragic fate of great Czech actress highlights communist atrocities in the 1950s
A new film called The Trap, which is due to premiere on Czech Television this Sunday, tells the tragic fate of the great Czech film and theatre actress Jiřina Štepničková…
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Unique Celtic head sculpture goes on display in Olomouc
One of the most precious items from the archives of the National Museum, a sculpted Celtic head dating back to the Iron Age, is currently on display at the Regional Museum…
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“Never Forgotten” project helping reveal depth of Czech-British ties
Support for Czechs living in Brexit Britain may have been the main reason for Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček’s visit to the UK on Friday. However, he chose to begin the…
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Precise dating shows Czech well is oldest wooden structure in the world
The world‘s oldest wooden structure is in the Czech Republic and it is a Neolithic well, according to newly published dating test results conducted by a team of…
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Stars as Red as the Morning Sky: The Cold War in Czechoslovakia
In this programme, the last in the current series looking at Czech history through the archives, we get a flavour of the Cold War. The archives throw up some curious…
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Czech Centre New York to mark liberation of Pilsen by US troops
A series of events are set to take place in New York and Washington this week to mark the upcoming 75th anniversary of the liberation of Pilsen by US troops. The main goal…
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Holocaust Memorial Day: teaching a new generation, through the children’s opera Brundibár
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most infamous of Nazi death camps. Throughout the Czech Republic, memorial…
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