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Parts of Jewish tombstones to gradually disappear from Prague’s cobbled streets
The undignified use of pieces of ancient Jewish tombstones as cobblestones in Prague’s pavements should soon come to an end. Under a memorandum to be signed between City…
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Places of the Velvet Revolution 4: Federal Assembly building
As the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution approaches, we take you to places that are closely associated with the events that led to the collapse of the Communist regime…
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A Stage for Revolution 1
The date is Tuesday 19 October 1965 and we are in Prague. A 21-year-old British girl has just got off a train at the Art Nouveau building of Prague’s Main Station. Over…
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Places of the Velvet Revolution 3: Wenceslas Square and Letná plain
As the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution draws near, we take you to places that are closely associated with the events that led to the collapse of the Communist regime…
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November 17, 1989 reconstructed through testimonies of 300 participants in new book
In a remarkable work of oral history, four students with the help of former dissident and award winning author Aleš Palán have produced a 270 page history of the events…
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Places of the Velvet Revolution 2: Laterna Magika
As the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution draws near, we take you to places that played a significant role in the events leading to the collapse of the Communist regime…
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Leading figures of 1989 discuss revolutions and their heritage in Central Europe at Czech Radio…
Czech Radio marked the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on Monday with an international conference on the fall of communism in Central Europe and the…
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Monday marks 80th anniversary of death of Jan Opletal, symbol of Czech resistance to Nazis
November 11 is the 80th anniversary of the death of Jan Opletal, a Prague student who had been gunned down at an anti-Nazi demonstration in the city a fortnight earlier…
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Saviour of Jewish refugees Marie Schmolka finally honoured in Prague
Though little-known today, Marie Schmolka was for several years one of Prague’s key organisers helping Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis, while she also helped arrange…
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Magdaléna Platzová: I was fainting with fear on Národní
Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution was sparked by a student demonstration on November 17, 1989 that was brutally quelled by riot police. Among those on the front line of…
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Places of the Velvet Revolution 1: Národní
As the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution draws near, we take you to places that played a significant role in the events leading to the collapse of the Communist regime…
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Czechs and Germans in 1930s Czechoslovakia: a complex picture
The Czech Radio archives give us a rich and nuanced picture of the months leading up to the Munich Agreement of September 1938 that resulted in Nazi Germany annexing huge…
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