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Jews in the Czech Republic
A visitor looks at the collection of drawings at the Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, Jan. 24, 2019, made by Jewish children who passed through the Terezin Ghetto during WWII (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
January 26, 2019, 5:55 pm
Dreams of Theresienstadt children on display in drawings exhibit
Artwork at Prague’s Jewish Museum was saved by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who taught secret art classes at Nazi camp and hid the drawings before she was sent to a death camp
By AP
Norm Eisen, left, meeting Vaclav Havel in Prague. (Forum 2000/via JTA)
September 24, 2018, 8:54 am
Trump critic’s book about Prague is a metaphor for Jewish anti-authoritarianism
Former US ambassador Norm Eisen’s ‘The Last Palace’ is an ode to his mother’s homeland and the historic estate he occupied for 3 years, and a grave warning on illiberal democracy
By Ron Kampeas
David Maxa delivers a sermon during Shabbat services at Prague’s Spanish Synagogue during the European Union of Progressive Judaism’s biennial, April 2018. (Courtesy of Maxa/via JTA)
September 23, 2018, 10:15 pm
A new Torah scroll symbolizes a Liberal Jewish revival in the Czech Republic
A relic originating in the country is being returned after having spent the last several decades at a Reform synagogue in London
By Margarita Gokun Silver
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
People watch as photographs of Czech Jews who were killed by the Nazis during World War II are projected on the outer wall of a Jewish bath at the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
October 17, 2017, 5:21 am
Faces of Holocaust victims projected on Prague synagogue
Inside, the Pinkas Synagogue walls bear the names of almost 80,000 Jewish victims murdered by Nazis
By AP
Holocaust survivor George Brady (YouTube screenshot)
October 23, 2016, 8:27 pm
Holocaust survivor denied Czech award in government spat
President Zeman nixes medal for George Brady after his nephew, a cabinet minister, meets with the Dalai Lama against leader’s wishes
By TOI staff and AFP
Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)
October 6, 2016, 9:59 pm
Czech kids’ volleyball team named for poison used by Nazis
Jewish leaders, Freedom Fighters group protest choice of ‘Cyklon B’ for team that played in Prague tournament
By JTA
Alex Schapiro studying for his bar mitzvah at the Spanish Synagogue of Prague in 2016. (Courtesy of Andrew H. Schapiro via JTA)
August 26, 2016, 7:00 pm
US envoy’s son has bar mitzvah at his ancestors’ shul in Prague
Alex Schapiro performs Jewish rite of passage at Spanish Synagogue, where his relatives prayed before they fled the Nazis
By JTA
A bus in the Czech Republic advertising the Nazi death camp Auschwitz as fun holiday destination that was originally made as a film prop seen on the website of the Auto Xaver bus company on August 16, 2016. (autoxaver.com)
August 16, 2016, 8:58 pm
Uproar over ‘satirical’ Czech bus advertising Auschwitz vacations
Old movie prop promoting the Nazi death camp as fun holiday destination decried by local Holocaust survivors, Jewish leaders
By TOI staff
Katie Ledecky celebrating winning gold and setting a new world record in the Women’s 400-meter freestyle final on day two of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Aug. 7, 2016. (Al Bello/Getty Images via JTA)
August 9, 2016, 1:20 am
Gold medalist swimmer inspired by her Jewish history
Katie Ledecky says her grandmother’s stories of family’s losses during the Holocaust have driven her to succeed
By Gabe Friedman
File: Czech President Milos Zeman, right, and his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin put stones on the memorial during a remembrance ceremony for the victims at the former Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, October 22, 2015. (AFP/Michal Cizek)
May 17, 2016, 4:41 am
Czech Jews call Terezin memorial addresses nationalist, xenophobic
Community groups says speeches at Sunday commemoration in former concentration camp demonized foreigners, refugees
By JTA
The Old New synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia/Øyvind Holmstad)
April 5, 2016, 11:20 pm
Czechs to up security of ‘threatened’ Jewish institutions
New official position created to handle coordination between the community and the government
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a Torah scroll (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
January 19, 2016, 9:15 pm
Brno Jewish community unveils new Torah scroll
Ceremony marks completion of year-long renovation of the synagogue in the Czech Republic’s second largest city
By JTA
In this picture taken on Monday Oct. 26, 2015, Tomas Jelinek looks at a tombstone that was used as a doorstep to a hen house in efforts to restore a former Jewish cemetery in Prostejov, Czech Republic. (AP Photo/Petr Josek)
December 2, 2015, 6:47 am
In small Czech village, lost Jewish graveyard unearthed
In Prostejov, researchers piece together tombstones destroyed by the Nazis, which include relatives of author Stefan Zweig, philosopher Edmund Husserl
By Karel Janicek
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