Section Archive ICE - special
Romany Holocaust remembered at the Lety concentration camp in South Bohemia
The Czech Republic remembered victims of the Romany Holocaust on Tuesday...
on a site which is now used as a pig farm. Lety, a former concentration
camp where hundreds of Czech Roma perished, has in recent years become the
centre of international controversy, with the Czech government seemingly
unwilling to rehouse the pig farm built on the site. Radio Prague's Rosie
Johnston has the story:
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English language student theatre flourishing in Slovenia
When you hear the word musical, usually the first thing that comes to mind
are grand productions in London, New York, Hamburg or Vienna. Cats, Les
Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera – shows that combine singing,
dancing and acting. All of this, combined with youthful charm, energy and
verve, can also be found at an otherwise average Slovenian grammar school.
Metka Filipich of Radio Slovenia International has the story.
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Awards from unsung war hero keep importance of Holocaust education in
Irena Sendler is one of the unsung heroes of World War Two. Now 98, she
saved two and a half thousand Jewish children from the Holocaust in Nazi
occupied Poland. Today, 65 years later, she is still active and her message
has lost nothing of its relevance. Michal Kubicki from Polish Radio’s
External Service reports on the Irena Sendler awards for Holocaust
education.
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Guide dogs offer invaluable assistance to the blind
We are all familiar with guide dogs, animals which provide irreplaceable
assistance to many blind people. But what particular qualities are guide
dog trainers looking for? And what percentage of dogs that begin training
actually make the grade? Radio Slovakia International’s Maria Bulkova has
been finding out.
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Missile defence conference held in Prague but Condi, political consensus both absent
The Czech Foreign Ministry played host to a conference on missile defence
on Monday, with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer among the
guest speakers. The conference was organised to look at what lies ahead for
plans to build a U.S. radar tracking facility on Czech soil, after NATO
gave the project a cautious endorsement at its recent summit in Bucharest.
Radio Prague’s Rob Cameron reports.
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Slovenian-based festival fostering “radical communication”
This year marks the seventh anniversary of Memefest, a "festival of
radical communication," based in Slovenia which is encouraging
students, professionals, artists and activists alike to contribute to the
collective counter-culture. Radio Slovenia International’s Ivana
Pristavec reports.
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Slovenes are making a meal of the humble potato
In Slovenia nothing goes down as well as a good feed of sautéed potatoes
and onion. Yes the humble potato has been a staple of the Slovene diet for
a couple of centuries. So much so that a few years ago five enthusiasts
formed the "Society for the Recognition of Sautéed Potato and Onions
as an Independent Dish". As Heather Pirejevic reports, what started as
a bit of a joke has since become something of a smorgasboard.
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Czech President says bio-fuels are a "cloud on the horizon"
As the price of food rockets ever higher questions are being asked about
whether planting crops for biofuels could be partly to blame. Now the Czech
president, Vaclav Klaus, who is known for his anti-environmentalist stance,
has openly criticised the rapidly-developing biofuels industry. And his
concerns are echoed elsewhere.
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Love month in Slovakia - if the Birch tree fails, try the love potion
May is the month of love in Slovakia. On the first of the month beautiful
birch trees decorated with colourful ribbons appear in front of houses in
villages all over the country. These trees are called Máje. Young men
would put the trees outside the house of their intended. The decorated
birch tree was a definite marriage proposal not usually refused given the
fact that the whole village could see the tree. And in the villages of
Slovakia, if the tree did not do the trick then a love potion just might.
In this merry month of May Anca Dragu went to the Museum of the Slovak
Village in Martin in Central Slovakia to seek the advice of a love potion
expert.
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The migrant tide is turning - Central and Eastern Europeans head home
A million migrants from Central and Eastern Europe arrived in Britain after
European Union enlargement in 2004. They were doctors and dentists,
plumbers and painters, waiters and willing field workers. They filled a gap
in the British labour market and they helped enrich their own economies by
sending money back home. This wave of workers was not predicted, in fact
Britain expected only 30 thousand migrants. As we now know the real number
was much higher but a new report suggests the immigration tide is turning.
The British based Institute for Public Policy Research says half of those
who left for the "golden west" have now returned home and many
more are considering it.
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