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Current AffairsCompensation for Czech forced labourers in Austria to be paid next February
A Reconciliation Fund, from which compensation is to be paid to people
sent to Austria as forced labourers during WWII, has been officially launched
in Vienna. There are some 15 thousand Czech citizens
eligible for compensation, which they are to start receiving as of
February next year. has the details:
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Czechs in HistoryPremysl Pitter - a forgotten Czech Schindler
Thanks to Steven Spielberg the name of Oskar Schindler is known the world over, but this
programme is about an almost forgotten contemporary of Schindler, who deserves a similar
place in history. In the course of the tumultuous 20th century, Premysl Pitter, born in Prague
in 1895, did more than perhaps anyone else to help children - Czech, German and Jewish -
through some of the most horrific moments of European history. More
