How Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust witness, survived the horrific ordeal of Theresienstadt (Terezín) with music. >article (c) open culture 2013
The former concentration camp >photos
Archive for Czechoslovakia
Surviving on Music
Posted in Uncategorized with tags concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holocaust, survivors, Terezín, testimony, Theresienstadt on 1 December 2013 by delclemInternational Students’ Day today
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, German occupation, International Students' Day, Jan Opletal, National Socialism, student protest, universitites on 17 November 2013 by delclem
+
“This is an international observance of student community, held annually on November 17. Taking the day differently than its original meaning commemorating German storming of Czech universities in 1939 and killing and sending of its students to concentration camps, a number of universities mark it, sometimes on a day other than November 17, for a nonpolitical celebration of the multiculturalism of their international students.”
>more
+
Korngold biography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Brno, Czechoslovakia, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hollywood, Music, opera, review on 15 July 2013 by delclem
Fifteen years after its first publication, a biography of the composer is translated into German >review & illustration (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
From Prague to Washington
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Czechoslovakia, gender, Madeline Albright, Marie jana Korbelová, Prague, USA, Washington on 5 July 2013 by delclem
Prague, Capital of the 20th Century
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, cultural history, Czechoslovakia, Derek Sayer, Prague, review on 18 March 2013 by delclem
A Surrealist history by Derek Sayer >review (c) ART DAILY, 2013
“A Personal Story of Remembrance & War”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, interview, Madeleine Albright, memoir, Prague, USA on 17 March 2013 by delclem
Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson interviews Marie Jana Korbel(ová) – aka. the US ex-foreign minister Madeleine Albright – about her latest book, a memoir of her childhood days in Prague (c) ASPEN INSTITUTE / YOUTUBE, 2012
A Venial Sin of History
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1992, 1993, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, dismembration, nation state, Nationalism, Postcommunism, secession, Slovakia on 1 January 2013 by delclem
The British Schindler
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, Fim, Great Britain, Holocaust, Joe Schlesinger, Nicholas Winton, Schindler on 27 January 2012 by delclem“In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Sir Nicholas Winton was preparing to take a vacation when he received a call from a friend who told him that he was leaving for Prague and needed his help. (…) Winton decided to take action and by September 1939, he managed to arrange visas and admission to British families for nearly 700 Central European mostly Jewish children. (…) Fifty years later, his wife found a scrapbook full of documents and transport plans….
Joe Schlesinger, a CBC reporter and one of the rescued children, is the guide in the documentary who presents not only how Winton’s act changed his life, but also how it continues to influence the lives of thousands of others worldwide.”
(on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2012)
Vaclav Havel 1936 – 2011
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, obituary, Vaclav havel on 20 December 2011 by delclem
Author of absurd theatre, dissident, prisoner, president, European; the Czech leader who tried to teach his compatriots lessons in ethics and who lost Slovakia: Vaclav Havel is dead. See obituaries below (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2011.
Editorial on the European VH
Michael Billington on the dramatist VH
Timothy Garton Ash on the epitome VH
VH´s life in pictures
Strange love for bunkers
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, bunkers, Czechoslovakia, military history, Slovakia on 16 September 2011 by delclem
“Petržalka, the largest district in the Slovak capital Bratislava / Pozsony / Pressburg, is most well known for the apartment blocks of its vast public housing projects. Few of the over 100,000 inhabitants know about the silent witnesses to the (Czechoslovak) past nearby, often hidden in the undergrowth.”
delirium clemens 