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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Czechoslovakia

File: Czech writer Milan Kundera poses in a garden in Prague on October 14, 1973. (AFP)
July 12, 2023, 3:06 pm
Milan Kundera, exiled Czech author and dissident, dies in Paris aged 94
Fiction writer’s satirical take on one-party state got his works banned in former Czechoslovakia
By Agencies
A Ludwig van Beethoven's music manuscript, is seen in the Moravian Museum's collection in Brno on Nov. 30 2022, in Brno, Slovakia (Šálek Václav/CTK via AP)
December 3, 2022, 2:05 pm
Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to family that fled Holocaust
Petschek family tried, but failed, to send handwritten manuscript abroad by mail in March 1939 during the Nazi occupation, drawing the attention of the Gestapo
By Karel Janicek
The grave of Martin Davidovich, the man named by the Israel Defense Forces as the nation’s first fallen paratrooper, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, on October 28, 2021. (IDF)
October 28, 2021, 9:53 pm
IDF’s 1st fallen paratrooper buried in Israel, 73 years after his death
Auschwitz survivor Martin Davidovich was killed during 1948 Czechoslovakia exercise for force of Jewish volunteers that was set to emigrate to Israel and formally join military
By ToI Staff
Martin Davidovich (Courtesy)
October 23, 2021, 10:57 am
IDF’s 1st fallen paratrooper to be buried in Israel, 73 years after his death
Auschwitz survivor Martin Davidovich was killed during 1948 Czechoslovakia exercise for force of Jewish volunteers that was set to emigrate to Israel and formally join military
By ToI Staff
The New Yorker writer, Janet Malcolm, leaves the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco, California, on June 3, 1993. (AP/George Nikitin)
June 17, 2021, 11:58 pm
Janet Malcolm, New Yorker writer who challenged subjects, dies at 86
Jewish journalist earned fans and enemies for willingness to take on colleagues and others, questioning the idea of the dispassionate observer
By Hillel Italie
Zalman Unreich (On) teaching wrestling in Palestine, 1930s. Photo appeared on collecting cards and in book titled, 'Mishmar VeSport' (https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002015431/NLI)
February 13, 2021, 9:10 am
Wrestler, rescuer, diplomat, spy: Grandson unmasks his heroic Israeli patriarch
‘The Undercover Wrestler’ reveals an unknown story of diplomat Zalman On, who used his brawn and brains to save European Jews — and befriended Frank Sinatra
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Franci Rabinek Epstein and daughter Helen Epstein, New York, c. 1950s. (Courtesy of Helen Epstein)
October 10, 2020, 9:24 am
Sexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees light
Second-generation trauma expert Helen Epstein publishes late mother Franci Rabinek Epstein’s manuscript, initially rejected in mid-1970s for being ahead of its time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
People walk across pavement, parts of which were made from tombstones taken from a Jewish cemetery, in the pedestrian zone at Wenceslas Square in Prague, March 20, 2018. (Michal Cizek/AFP photo)
November 20, 2019, 12:18 am
Prague to return pieces of Jewish gravestones once used to pave sidewalks
Headstones from 19th-century cemetery were taken for roadwork ahead of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1987 visit; will be handed back to Jewish community
By JTA
Illustrative: The lower part of the Schindler factory next to a demolished 19th-century building. (photo credit: Eva Munk/JTA)
March 23, 2019, 11:06 pm
Descendant of Jewish family that owned Schindler factory helps make it a museum
Daniel Low-Beer says though the facility was stolen from his family, the late German industrialist ‘used it for good and saved 1,200 Jews’
By ToI Staff
The Statue of Saint Wenceslas is pictured as people walk in the pedestrian zone at Wenceslas Square in Prague, on March 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Michal CIZEK)
January 23, 2019, 8:49 pm
Czech lawmakers approve tax on church, synagogue compensation
Reparations worth $2.6 billion for religious denominations’ property seized by post-World War Two Communist regime could be taxed at 19 percent if law passes
By AFP
Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)
November 4, 2018, 1:37 am
How an Israel that never liked Franz Kafka came to own his literary legacy
In a new book, author Benjamin Balint traces the long, tortuous journey of the famed surrealist writer’s original manuscripts – and through them the fading away of a murdered world
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein at a ceremony in Jerusalem marking 100 years since the founding of Czechoslovakia and 70 years since Israel's establishment on July 3, 2018. (Knesset)
July 4, 2018, 1:05 am
In ‘surprise’ move, Slovakia says cultural mission to open in Jerusalem
Bratislava MP says he hopes move will be the ‘first of a series of steps’; Knesset speaker hails ‘tremendous diplomatic achievement’
By Alexander Fulbright
In this file photo taken on November 06, 2004 Czech director Milos Forman poses after being presented with the 'Giraldillo' award for his life-long career achievements at Sevilla Festival Film Spain. (AFP PHOTO / Cristina Quicler)
April 14, 2018, 2:14 pm
Milos Forman, from orphan of Nazi camps to Oscar-winning director
Director of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus’ dies aged 86; in 1964 he discovered his biological father was a Jewish architect living in Ecuador
By Jan Flemr
Joseph Stalin in July, 1941. (Public domain)
From the WebApril 8, 2018, 11:53 am
Lost footage uncovered of Stalin’s anti-Semitic show trial
Film found in Czech Republic shows Jewish communist leader accused of supporting Zionism, forced to confess and request death penalty, The Guardian reports
Tourists stand or walk across the pavement of the pedestrian zone at Wenceslas Square in Prague on March 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Michal CIZEK)
March 25, 2018, 9:46 am
Prague pedestrians tread unaware on Jewish gravestones
Communist-built pavement in Czech capital used slabs with Hebrew inscriptions taken from derelict cemetery; despite many complaints by Jewish community, issue was never resolved
By Jan MARCHAL
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