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Today in Mailbox: migration from the Czech lands in the first half of the 20th century, political satire, Czech language courses on Radio Prague, an interview with Czech Holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlova. Listeners quoted: Kimsey M. Fowler, Mark Zubik, Mark and Gail Stacey, David Stern.

This week in Mailbox: Three years in the EU; a plan to establish neighbourhood watches; interview with Holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlova and a shocking case of child abuse in the Czech Republic. Listeners quoted: Vladimir Val Cymbal, Vic Uhlik, Bob Morgan, Lynda-Marie Hauptman.

In this special New Year's Day show we are taking a look back at some of the best of our One on One interview programme in 2006. Among those featured are William Teltscher, who fled Mikulov in 1938 and recalls his return to Czechoslovakia, Zdenek Marek, who defected a day after winning the World Ice Hockey Championships in Sweden, and Pavla Fleischer, a film maker who experienced a bombing in Tel Aviv. Other guests include Communist Party member Josef Skala, opinion pollster Jan Hartl and Glasgow-based Czech academic and commentator Jan

In last week's One on One, we heard the first part of an interview with Zdenka Fantlova in which she talked about her experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. In today's second part of the interview, Zdenka Fantlova, who lost all her family in the Holocaust, explains her belief that the power of love can overcome death. She begins by recalling how she and her fiancé were parted at the Terezin concentration camp in Bohemia.

Today in Mailbox: Problems with sending e-mail messages to Radio Prague, comments on interview with Holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlova, Talking Point on foundation of Charter 77, Radio Prague on DRM. Listeners quoted: Evelyn Coviello, Constantin Liviu Viorel, Helmut Matt.

On Tuesday, Jewish communities in the Czech Republic are commemorating Yom ha Shoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day which is observed around the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. The names of Czech Holocaust victims will be read out during ceremonies in Prague and a former concentration camp in Terezin. Around 80,000 Czech Jews perished in the Holocaust, among them the whole family of Zdenka Fantlova, who was herself imprisoned in several concentration camps: Terezin, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Mauthausen until she was liberated from