Number 64401 Speaks
During World War II, the leaders of Nazi Germany came up with a plan to obtain foreign currency. For this purpose they set up a counterfeiting plant in Sachsenhausen...
It may not be necessary to introduce to our older generation, the Chairwoman of the Czech Union of Freedom Fighters (CUFF), Mrs. Anděla Dvořáková. Nevertheless, there are others...
Don’t Be Afraid of Loudmouths
When you hear the name Marta Kottová, many of you will recall the grey-haired charismatic lady who was awarded the Medal of Merit – Second...
The Funny Side of Life
It is probably not necessary to introduce Věra Tichánková, but there are periods of her life which are defi nitely worth remembering.
Maybe because...
The writer Arnošt Lustig is a next personality of our series who was arrested in the Terezín hetto duringthe Nazi occupation. He was born on December 21, 1926, in Prague-Libeň in...
Two lives, or draw what you see
Helga, the daughter of Irena and Otta Weiss, was born in Prague, on November 10, 1929. Her father (1898–1944) came from Pardubice, and mother,...
“I think that our family was quite average in the times of the ’fi rst republic‘. Our father worked as a construction engineer in the Czechoslovak Railways, mother...
It was the year 1926, when in a Czech Jewish family in Prague Erik Polák was born. Until German Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia he had been growing up in Libeň – which used...
Doctor Dagmar Lieblová, by birth from Kutná Hora, grew and lived in Česká street until she was thirteen years old. But her childhood was very dramatic – read the...
Ema Blažková was born in Prague, on the last day of the summer holidays in 1924, in a clerk’s family. It’s hard to tell whom she inherited her creative gifts...
a unique woman…
Milada Horáková (25th December 1901– 27th June 1950) was a Czechoslovak politician who was executed for alleged conspiracy and treason...