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18 days ago

Holocaust survivor who fled from Nazi tyranny to Britain on the Kindertransport dies aged 95 - as tributes hail her 'strength and courage'

Vera Schaufeld was told when she was nine years old that she had to move to England on her own following the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.

80 days ago

‘He should be known as a film music revolutionary’: revitalising the legacy of Czech composer Zdeněk Liška

The electroacoustic pioneer scored dozens of pictures – and communist propaganda. Too successful to be persecuted by the politburo but largely forgotten when he died, his music is being revived by a …

3 months ago

7 months ago

Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

During the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment …

8 months ago

Did my Jewish great-grandfather make chemical weapons for the Nazis? Author Joe Dunthorne on a dark legacy

The novelist was researching his grandmother’s escape from Nazi Germany when he came across a startling confession made by her father at the end of his life...

My grandmother grew up brushing her teet…

9 months ago

I was forced to flee communist Czechoslovakia at just 18 years old before moving to the UK and becoming a Bond girl with Roger Moore - he was very different to what I expected

For Anika Pavel, now 75, starring in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me was just another chapter in her extraordinary story - after fleeing her homeland of Czechoslovakia.

Trump’s senseless capitulation to Putin is a betrayal of Ukraine – and terrible dealmaking | Timothy Garton Ash

As the US and its European allies head to the Munich security conference, Europe must learn from its tragic history and oppose appeasement

Donald Trump’s appeasement of Vladimir Putin makes Neville Ch…

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