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I was very keen on teaching the Germans a lesson, says Tomáš Lom, one of few surviving Czech RAF…
Tomáš Lom is one of the very few surviving Czechoslovaks who served in Britain’s RAF during World War II. Born Tomáš Löwenstein into a Jewish family in Prague, he signed…
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Dissident group that aided political prisoners recalled, 40 years later
Friday marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most significant dissident organisations in communist Czechoslovakia. The Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly…
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Fighter against dictatorships: Cardinal Josef Beran
Archbishop, later Cardinal, Josef Beran, become a symbol of opposition to totalitarian regimes. He was dubbed the archbishop who refused to be silenced. The punishment for…
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Czech Cardinal’s last wish to be respected after almost 50 years
The remains of exiled Czech Cardinal Josef Beran have been taken from the Vatican’s St Peter’s Basilica. On Friday, they will be flown to Prague and later buried in Prague…
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Charlotta Kotik: the independent great-granddaughter of the first Czechoslovak president TGM
Czechs have only one president instantly recognizable by his initials: TGM for Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. He was an icon of the newly-independent Czechoslovakia from 1918 to…
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Former US ambassador to Prague, William Luers, on what it was like to serve in Communist…
Former US ambassador to Czechoslovakia William Luers and his wife Wendy recently visited Prague and gave a talk at the American Centre about what it was like to be posted…
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Martin Šmok: Long-standing constructs of enemy being used to fuel levels of hatred unseen since war
Martin Šmok moved to the US in the 1990s to work with the USC Shoah Foundation, which has recorded video interviews with more than 50,000 Holocaust survivors. Long back in…
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Czech UNESCO listed documentary treasures go on show
An exhibition showcasing items and documents from Czech collections recently listed on a UNESCO list of world documentary treasures has got underway in Prague. Visitors…
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Czechs mark anniversary of revival of scouting movement during Prague Spring
Members of the Czech scouting movement are marking the 50th anniversary the movement’s short-lived revival in communist Czechoslovakia in 1968. The scouts were banned a…
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The Czech-led naval mutiny during World War One
Despite coming from a landlocked country, Czechs played a major role in the Austro-Hungarian fleet. And during WWI they also took a leading role in the most serious mutiny…
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Restoring rediscovered film of Czechoslovak communist show trial to take years
It’s been described by one historian as one of the greatest finds about the Czechoslovak communist era. Several kilometres of film and sound were recently discovered at a…
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RAF veteran Zbyšek Nečas-Pemberton dies at 97
WWII veteran Zbyšek Nečas, who flew with the No. 68 Night Fighter Squadron in the RAF, has died at the age of 97. The airman, who served as a radar operator on Bristol…
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