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Current AffairsKlaus: Czechs want "balanced" EU approach to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Vaclav Klaus spent three days in Israel this week, his first official visit
to the country since becoming president. Mr Klaus held talks with senior
Israeli officials and visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, and also
pleased his hosts by saying the Czech Republic would help the EU to adopt
what he called a balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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PanoramaThe highest 'Mitzvot'
There are some three hundred and forty known Jewish cemeteries in the Czech
lands. The thriving communities that once tended to their care were
virtually
wiped out during the Second World War. The ravages of time - but also
vandalism - have left many Jewish burial sites here a tangled mess of
cracked headstones and thick undergrowth. More
Current AffairsUnique footage of Holocaust survivors in Prague shown in London
Recently discovered footage of Polish and Czechoslovak Jews leaving Prague
for Britain in 1945 was shown for the first time on Tuesday at London's
Imperial War Museum. The four and half minutes of film show 732 teenage
Holocaust survivors heading for Britain, a country many of them would
later make their home. Among them was Ben Helfgott, a Polish Jew from near
Lodz, who was at Tuesday's premiere.
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Current AffairsCould Terezin house a European Holocaust Centre?
Few places have such an eerie atmosphere as the little walled garrison town
of Terezin, north of Prague. During the Second World War the Nazis turned
the entire town into a Jewish ghetto; 155,000 people passed through its
gates and of those who survived the grim conditions, the great majority
later died in the death camps of the east. Today this dark legacy still
hangs over Terezin. If you walk down its empty streets, the ghosts of the
past often seem more real than the life of the town in the present day.
Finding ways of reviving Terezin in a way that is sensitive to its tragic
past is proving a huge problem. David Vaughan has been following the
latest proposal put forward by the governor of the North Bohemian region,
Jiri Sulc.
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Czechs in HistoryA look at the Czech architect who built Hiroshima's Industrial Promotion Hall - today's A-Bomb Dome
This week citizens of Hiroshima, but also the rest of the world will mark
the 60th anniversary of the first use of the atomic bomb in war. On the
morning
of August 6th, 1945 - in an instant - most of Hiroshima ceased to exist. More
One on OneMichaed Radford - a British film-maker with Czech connections
Michael Radford adapted and directed the film Nineteen Eighty-four, but is
perhaps best known as the director and co-writer of the Oscar-nominated
Italian language film The Postman. Recently Michael Radford was the
president of the grand jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival, and I met him at the town's Hotel Embassy. It wasn't Mr
Radford's first visit to the Czech Republic - as he told me, his Czech
connections go way back. More
Current AffairsWWII bunkers for sale
The Czech Republic still has an extensive system of fortifications built in
the 1930s that was intended to prevent an attack by neighboring Nazi
Germany. You can often come across of these concrete "bungalows"
in Czech forests near the borders. While some consider the structures ugly,
historians point out their great historical value. Most of the bunkers are
still the property of Czech Army but they have rapidly become a burden.
The Ministry of Defense has now decided to get rid of them to sell them to
private buyers.
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Current AffairsPoland's "My Nikifor" wins Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary film festival
The 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, one of the country's
biggest annual cultural events, has come to an end. Held every year in the
picturesque west Bohemian spa town, a record 142,506 viewers - almost
20,000 more than last year - flocked to see 517 screenings. On Saturday,
the festival closed with its traditional award ceremony.
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