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British Embassy remembers Jan Palach with 1969 UK painting
It is not just Czechs who are currently remembering Jan Palach’s radical protest in January 1969 and the impact his sacrifice helped create. The British ambassador to the…
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Czech martyr Jan Palach’s enduring legacy, 50 years after his self-immolation
Fifty years ago on January 16, a young Czech university student named Jan Palach doused himself in petrol and set himself alight at the top of Prague’s Wenceslas Square…
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“This was something new” – Palach Week 1989, when thousands first took to the streets to protest…
The 20th anniversary of Jan Palach’s self-immolation brought many thousands onto the streets for protests that had no precedent in communist Czechoslovakia. Palach Week…
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Home of Jan Palach to become permanent memorial
As the 50 anniversary of Jan Palach’s self-immolation draws near, the National Museum has released details on a project it has been preparing for over a year. The house…
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Jaroslav Peprník – Learning English the hard way in wartime and beyond
Today, nine out of 10 Czech children are learning English at school. It seems strange that for decades English was considered the language of the enemy – first by Nazi…
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Prague hopes to turn ex-hospital where Jan Palach died into ‘Museum of Totalitarianism’
Fifty years ago this January, Jan Palach doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Prague…
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From cream to pig’s blood: How cooking evolved during the Protectorate
Whether it is gluten-free, paleo, vegan or just low-carb, the modern world offers special diets for the most selective consumers. But how does one eat when all but the…
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Paul Ort: Three times the Gestapo came for my brothers and me – three times my father fobbed…
Dr. Paul Ort’s mother and grandfather were murdered by the Nazis in reprisals that followed the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. A childhood friend of Vaclav Havel’s…
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Czech national revivalists fought against the Christmas tree, says historian
Lodged just before Christmas, December 22nd may at first seem a rather unremarkable day. However, it marks the anniversary of the first recorded Christmas tree being…
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Golden treasure from Thirty Years’ War discovered in Pardubice region
Officials of the Pardubice region recently announced a surprise discovery. Dozens of gold coins were found on a pasture near the town of Králíky in the north east of…
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New hopes of saving Schindler’s Ark
Thanks to Steven Spielberg, the story of Oskar Schindler and the twelve hundred Jews he saved during World War II is well known. But not many people know that the factory…
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Readings and ‘big heart’ rally commemorate seven years since death of Václav Havel
Tuesday marks the seventh anniversary of the death of Václav Havel. The former president remains a much respected figure in the country, even though his quotes are often…
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