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Famous Cold War spy Ladislav Bittman dies aged 87
One of the most important Czechoslovak Cold War defectors, Ladislav Bittman, died in his atelier in Rockport, Massachusetts, on Tuesday night. The foreign intelligence…
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Brundibár – the child opera that premiered in the Terezín ghetto 75 years ago
The Prague composer of Jewish descent, Hans Krása, wrote Brundibár using Adolf Hoffmeister’s libreto as early as 1938. Sadly however, the opera only became famous once it…
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Putting a face to Queen Judita, Saint Zdislava, and the ‘Vampire of Čelákovice’
Her beauty and mind were said to have been beyond compare. But when the remains of Judita of Thuringia were first unearthed sixty years ago in the Benedictine monastery of…
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Sculptor discovers monument by National Museum was actually dedicated to Jan Palach
A sculptor tasked with reconstructing the communist era pylon in front of the National Museum’s New Building has discovered old documents which show the monument’s author…
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Dog discovers Bronze Age treasure in Kostelec
While on a walk with his owner in the northern Bohemian village of Kostelecké Horky, a dog dug up more than 20 unique Bronze Age objects. These have since been analysed by…
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Church in Prague receives relic of Czech Marco Polo
On Tuesday evening a special delegation from Italy delivered a relic to the Church of Our Lady of the Snows in central Prague. The holy object in question is a fragment of…
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Bořek Lizec: Centennial Gala to honour Chicago’s role in Czechoslovak independence drive
Bořek Lizec, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Chicago, has unearthed and preserved remarkable stories of Czech-American friendships and come to believe that, quite…
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Thomas Archer Bata: My childhood holidays were to shoe factories
Thomas Archer Bata is in charge of global marketing for the Bata shoe company, which has more than 5,000 stores in over 70 countries all around the globe. He is the only…
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Masaryk returning to Kostelec, hat not in hand
To mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia, the town of Kostelec nad Orlicí took up a public collection to erect a new statue of the country’s founder…
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New website documents communist-era anti-Semitism
Whether it was in the show trials of the 1950s or reporting from the Middle East, an undercurrent of anti-Semitism was present in the communist propaganda apparatus in…
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Major exhibition on totalitarianism to open under Prague metronome in October
Starting in October, the area around Prague‘s metronome will house a large exhibition detailing the key moments in Czech totalitarian history. The project, which was…
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Barbara Winton: None of us understood the implications of what my father had done until we began to…
The late Sir Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 children, most of them Jewish, when he organised for them to leave Czechoslovakia for his native UK on the eve of WWII…
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