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Czechoslovakia

December 2023

  • Nicholas Winton with one of the children he rescued

    ‘The worst meeting I have ever had’: why a Kindertransport hero rejected a film about his life

  • Reluctant hero … Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton in One Life.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    One Life review – Anthony Hopkins in extraordinary true story of ‘British Schindler’

October 2023

  • Anny, an occasional sex worker, filmed over the course of 18 years, from 1996 to 2012, in Třeštíková’s film of the same name.

    ‘Time-lapse’ film-maker Helena Třeštíková: ‘Every life is interesting enough to produce a story’

  • John Bradley was expelled from school in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949 for anti-communist activities, and later worked as an interpreter before securing a travel document for England.

    Other lives
    John Bradley obituary

July 2023

  • FILES-CZECH-FRANCE-CULTURE-LITERATURE-KUNDERA-OBIT<br>(FILES) Czech writer Milan Kundera poses in a garden in Prague on October 14, 1973. Czech writer Milan Kundera, the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", has died aged 94, said Anna Mrazova, spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his native city of Brno on July 12, 2023. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Milan Kundera obituary

    Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being

June 2023

  • Ian Laidlaw-Dickson

    Other lives
    Ian Laidlaw-Dickson obituary

  • Paul Ickovic, 2010 И Jonathan Morse

    Paul Ickovic obituary

May 2023

  • Dana Němcová

    Dana Němcová obituary

    Czech dissident and politician who fought for human rights in the Soviet crackdown following the Prague Spring

February 2023

  • The Kindertransport memorial in Harwich, Essex, which was the main point of entry for most of the thousands of Jewish children who came to Britain from Nazi-occupied territories.

    To obtain the right to Czech nationality, I had to take the government to court

  • The Communist-era law is currently still in place and prevents descendants of Jewish refugees who escaped Czechoslovakia during Nazi occupation via pre-second world war ‘Kindertransport’ (such as this pictured vessel, which rescued Jewish children from Nazi Germany) from gaining Czech citizenship

    Czechs urged to repeal law denying rights to Kindertransport descendants

January 2023

  • Tom Karen in 2017 at his home in Cambridge, a delightful meeting of cabinet of curiosities, workshop and studio.

    Tom Karen obituary

    Designer of colourful, memorable products of the 1960s and 70s such as Marble Run and the Raleigh Chopper

December 2022

  • Zdenka Fantlová, Czech Embassy, 1946

    Zdenka Fantlová obituary

    Czech actor who described how she survived several Nazi camps during the Holocaust in her book The Tin Ring

March 2022

  • Police detain a woman during a protest against Russian military action in Ukraine, in Manezhnaya Square in central Moscow on 13 March.

    Index on Censorship, inspired by Soviet dissidents, marks 50 years of fighting for free speech

    Martin Bright
    The brave protests of Soviet dissidents in 1968 spawned an organisation that is still giving voice to Putin’s critics today

February 2022

  • Civilians Continue Combat Training With Kyiv Territorial Defence Units<br>KYIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 29: A female civilian participates in a Kyiv Territorial Defence unit training session on January 29, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Across Ukraine thousands of civilians are participating in such groups to receive basic combat training and in a time of war would be under direct command of the Ukrainian military. While Ukrainian officials have acknowledged the country has little chance to fend off a full Russian invasion, Russian occupation troops would likely face a deep-rooted, decentralised and prolonged insurgency. Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops on its border to Ukraine. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

    This is Europe
    From eastern Europe we watch Ukraine in fear. Its fate could decide the continent’s future

    Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz
    Past trauma means we worry about Russia reclaiming its cold war sphere of influence, say the historian Karolina Wigura and political analyst Jarosław Kuisz

December 2021

  • Mehdi ben Barka giving a press conference in Casablanca in January 1959.

    Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi ben Barka was a spy, cold war files suggest

    The activist who was murdered in Paris in 1965 was a hero of the global struggle against imperialism, but files from the Czechoslovak secret service cast doubt on his independence

October 2021

  • Roger Michell<br>FILE - Roger Michell poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'The Duke' during the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 4, 2020. Michell, the British stage, television and film director whose movies include the indelibly popular romcom “Notting Hill,” has died, his family said Thursday. He was 65. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

    Letter: Roger Michell obituary

    Francesca Shrapnel writes: Roger Michell had been able to go through the text in detail with Václav Havel, who was under surveillance in Prague

September 2021

  • Gerda Mayer in 2019. She was a familiar voice on the poetry reading circuit and featured on BBC radio.

    Other lives
    Gerda Mayer obituary

    Other lives: Poet who drew on her experiences as a child refugee from the Holocaust

July 2021

  • Soviet tank column in Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 1968.

    From the Guardian archive
    Soviet tanks move to Poland’s southern border – archive, 1968

    31 July 1968: Observers believe the Soviets are doing this to ‘show the flag’ during the Czechoslovak crisis

May 2021

  • Young priests come under the watchful eye of Pacem in Terris.

    Servants review – stylish iron curtain noir

  • Servants.

    Servants review – evil permeates a Catholic seminary

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