3+ hour, 43+ min ago  (539+ words) For nearly 25 years, Libu'e Salomonovi'ov" has been piecing together the stories of Jewish families connected to Ostrava in the northeastern Czech region of Moravia-Silesia. Now the 89-year-old researcher has donated her life's work, a unique archive containing records on some…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (345+ words) Franti'ek Moravec, Jan Kubi', Adolf Op'lka and Jaroslav Kr'tky are well-known names to Czechs. They are paratroopers, who escaped to Great Britain where they were trained by the RAF and parachuted into occupied Czechoslovakia to fight the Nazis in WWII....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (564+ words) The renowned fighter aircraft of Britain's Royal Air Force in the Second World War " the iconic Spitfire " has appeared on a foreign sales portal. What makes this particular veteran remarkable is its Czech connection. It was flown in RAF service…...

5+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (695+ words) On January 16, Czechs mark 57 years since Jan Palach set himself alight in the centre of Prague. The twenty-year-old student's shocking act was intended to rouse Czechoslovak society from growing apathy in the wake of the Soviet occupation of August 1968. "Today…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (581+ words) Second World War veteran Miloslav Masopust has died at the age of 101. In 1944, he joined the First Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union and took part in the liberation of Slovakia. Thanks to recorded testimonies, we can hear his…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (654+ words) After the war, the USA, the USSR, France, and the UK agreed to establish an International Military Tribunal to prosecute and punish the major Nazi perpetrators. The tribunal first convened in Nuremberg on November 20, 1945, and continued until October 1, 1946. Twenty-four war…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (379+ words) The latest Czechast tells the story of two remarkable women " Barbara Day and Nancy Durham " who risked much to help Czech intellectual life survive under communism. Through the Jan Hus Educational Foundation, they built bridges between British academics and dissident…...