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Current AffairsVáclav Havel honoured at Prague’s Chanukah ceremony
The late president Václav Havel was honoured by Prague’s Jewish
community on Wednesday during a Chanukah lighting ceremony in Jan Palach
square in the centre of the capital. Jewish leaders, along with diplomats
and the mayor of Prague, said the festival celebrates the same values
Václav Havel always stood up for. 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
Current AffairsMikulov’s summer art symposiums sampled at Malostranská beseda
Each summer, the south Moravian town of Mikulov hosts Czech and
international artists who come for an annual art symposium. Since the event
was first held in 1994, they have created more than 260 artefacts, some of
which are exhibited at the Mikulov chateau. But now, selected works from
the Mikulov collection of contemporary art have also gone on display at the
Malostranská beseda gallery in Prague. More
Czech HistoryMikulov museum displays historic scientific instruments from town’s 380-year-old Piarist school
The Regional Museum in Mikulov, in southern Moravia, has opened an
exhibition of historic scientific instruments once used at the town’s
380-year-old grammar school. The exhibition highlights the beauty of the
elaborate antique objects, and it also shows what role the school, founded
by the Catholic order of the Piarists in the middle of the Thirty Years’
War, played in the town’s history. More
Current AffairsOSCE conference in Prague addresses anti-Semitism in public discourse
Representatives of 56 member countries of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe met in Prague this week for a conference on
anti-Semitism in public discourse, hosted by the Czech Foreign Ministry.
The participants called for more decisive steps to combat expressions of
hatred and intolerance, and stressed the need for better data on
anti-Semitic incidents. RP talked to Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating
Anti-Semitism, about the Prague meeting. More
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