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Current AffairsIsraeli author Tom Segev on his biography of Simon Wiesenthal
The Israeli author Tom Segev is in Prague to launch the Czech translation
of his acclaimed biography of the Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. Entitled
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends, Tom Segev’s latest work offers a
critical yet compassionate look at the complicated man who devoted his life
to tracking down Nazi criminals. Radio Prague spoke to Tom Segev during his
Prague visit, and asked him how different the real Simon Wiesenthal was
from the myths he himself helped create. More
Czech Books“Sala’s Gift”: a whole war in a tin box
You will probably not have heard of Gross Sarne, Brande, Blechhammer or
Schatzlar, but these are places that should be remembered. They were all
Nazi slave labour camps in World War Two. The last on that list, Schatzlar,
or Žacléř as it is known in Czech, was in what is now the Czech
Republic, in the part of north-eastern Bohemia annexed by the German Reich
in 1938. Few people in this country, even among the inhabitants of
Žacléř itself, know that the camp even existed, but a new book should
help to put that right. The daughter of one of the survivors has just been
in the Czech Republic, to launch the Czech edition of her book “Sala’s
Gift”. The book tells her mother’s story, drawing richly from Sala’s
own memories and from several hundred letters that, against all odds,
survived the war. David Vaughan tells the story. More
PanoramaA long-forgotten story of survival from WWII comes to light
A black and white photograph of a smiling Jewish girl unearthed in a
photographer’s studio some years ago has led a young Czech journalist to
piece together the dramatic story of a large group of Jewish children who
were smuggled to Denmark to escape the Holocaust. While the story of the
Nicolas Winton children is well known, this one is only just coming to
light and will hopefully reunite long-lost friends scattered around the
globe. The freelance journalist who is singlehandedly tackling the task is
Judita Matyasova whom I invited to the studio. She began by telling me how
it all came about. More
Current AffairsSurvivors remember first transport to Terezín in winter of 1941
It's exactly seventy years since the first transport of Czechoslovak Jews
left Prague, bound for the garrison town of Terezín, transformed by the
Nazis into a ghetto and concentration camp. Some 140,000 Jewish men, women
and children were sent to Terezín, known as Theresienstadt in German; most
of them were later killed at Auschwitz. A number of events were held this
week bringing together Terezín survivors, one of them on Thursday evening
at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. More
Current AffairsKoh-i-noor - a tale of two brothers, a famous painting, and the Holocaust
Two years ago, representatives of 46 governments gathered at the former
Nazi concentration camp in Terezín, an hour’s drive north of Prague.
Among the many pledges contained within the pages of the Terezín
Declaration was a promise to expedite the return of private property seized
from Jews during the Holocaust and still not returned. Many descendants,
however, are still waiting to get their family's property back. More
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