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Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Today, Theresienstadt is best known for the Nazi propaganda of the... Read more »
An online presentation by Barbara Winton of the new website she has curated about her father Sir Nicholas Winton www.nicholaswinton.com Nicholas Winton was born on 19 May 1909 and died on 1st July 2015 aged 106. He was known for organising the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before... Read more »
Dan Cruickshank, a well-known television art and architecture historian, will share his impressions of the Czech Lands online via Zoom. Dan's travels have taken him to the Czech Lands where he filmed two of his television broadcasts. It might have been his friendship with Jan Kaplický, as well as with Eva Jiřičná, that inspired his... Read more »
An online talk on Zoom by Caroline Cannon-Brookes Following the deadly scourge of plague in 1679 and the relief of the Turkish Siege in 1683 the Viennese, with improved security, embarked on a great building programme which would provide visible proof of triumphant Catholicism and the Imperial Ideal. Two important Baroque architects emerged at this... Read more »
PROGRAMME Robert Schumann Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 54 (34') — Intermission (10') — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (32') PERFORMERS Kirill Gerstein piano Semyon Bychkov conductor Czech Philharmonic Marek Eben host To be broadcast on Czech Philharmonic social media and ČT... Read more »
EUNIC London in collaboration with the EU Delegation in the UK present the third edition of the In Short, Europe short film festival, taking place online from 7-16 May. A lonely 40-year-old cesspit worker living a quiet life in a village with his dexterous dog and essential beer supply finds his quality of life threatened... Read more »
EUNIC London in collaboration with the EU Delegation in the UK present the third edition of the In Short, Europe short film festival, taking place online from 7-16 May. The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the... Read more »
A Zoom lecture by Dr Mark Whelan. The coming of the Black Death to Europe was a defining epidemiological event, killing anywhere between twenty-five and eighty percent of the continent’s population in the years 1347-1351. With Covid-19 sweeping the globe, interest in past pandemics and the historical comparisons they may provide has never been higher.... Read more »
A talk via Zoom by Daniel Low-Beer, a grandson whose surviving relatives never returned to their homeland. Before the Munich Agreement and the Nazi horrors descended on Czechoslovakia, Jews were central to the cultural and economic life of Brno. The Low-Beers were industrialists, textile producers, diplomats, movers and shakers, who were building the new republic... Read more »
Free Zoom talk with an introduction by Philip Ingram, MBE On the anniversary of the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942, George Bearfield will provide an overview of the book’s story and share photographs from his grandfather’s collection, many of which have never been seen before. This will be followed by... Read more »
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