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Waiting for Winton: rail station pays tribute to British hero
Another tribute has been paid to Sir Nicolas Winton, the British man who helped to save 669, mostly Jewish children, from Czechoslovakia prior to the outbreak of World War…
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Czechs mark 20 years since worst floods in human memory
The month of July, 1997 brought devastating floods to Central Europe. The flooding began in the Czech Republic, then spread to Poland and Germany taking the lives of close…
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Czechs mark Battle of Zborov centenary
Czechs are marking the centenary of the Battle of Zborov, where Czechoslovak legionaries joined the Kerensky Offensive, the last Russian offensive in WW I. From a global…
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“Last Address” project commemorates victims who were executed or whose deaths were hastened by…
The country’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes on Tuesday launched a new project to commemorate victims of former Czechoslovakia’s communist regime. Called…
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Historian Igor Lukeš: Exile was much easier during the Cold War
Professor Igor Lukeš teaches at Boston University and has written extensively on modern Czech history, the Cold War and contemporary developments in Central and Eastern…
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Lidice, 75 years later: “A place of hope and tragedy”
June 10 is the anniversary of one of the worst atrocities in modern Czech history. On that day, in retaliation for the killing of governor Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis…
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A true act of solidarity: How Barnett Stross and the miners of Stoke-On-Trent helped rebuild Lidice
When the Nazis razed the Czech village of Lidice to the ground and murdered its inhabitants in June 1942, it sparked horror and anger across the globe. One place where the…
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UK group Lidice Lives taking part in 75th anniversary commemorations
Among many who have come to the Czech Republic to mark this Saturday’s 75th anniversary of the Nazis’ annihilation of Lidice is Alan Gerrard of the group Lidice Lives…
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Spartakiady: mass events that exercised the Czechoslovak Communist regime
Spartakiads, or Spartakiady, mass gymnastic exercises, were a unique event of their kind in Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime. Historian Petr Roubal has put the…
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Last days: The heroes of Operation Anthropoid at Prague’s Cyril and Methodius Church
Seventy-five years ago, on May 27, 1942, Czechoslovak parachutists dropped into Bohemia carried out one of the most daring actions of World War II, the assassination of…
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Empress Maria Theresa: an enlightened ruler who recognized the value of education for all
In this edition of our miniseries, marking the 300th anniversary of the birth of Empress Maria Theresa, we look at one of the most important reforms she introduced…
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Czech historians race to record recollections of anti-Communist resistance
Historians are in a race against time to record the recollections of those who took part in resistance to the Communist regime in the early 1950s. They have had one…
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