BRNENEC, Czech Republic—The windows are smashed, the doors stand agape and the keys in the rusting padlocks have not been turned for years. Still, despite the plaster clinging to the crumbling bricks in leprous sheets, the front looks salvageable.The...
TRSICE, Czech Republic -- Nearly 70 years after a Czech Jewish family sought refuge from the Nazis by retreating into a nearby forest and relying on non-Jewish locals for help, an American high school teacher has helped erect a permanent monument to their...
By Michael Stein, JTA
• Published January 31, 2012
PRAGUE -- A Czech Holocaust survivor published a diary of his Nazi concentration camp experiences. Michal Kraus, 81, published the diary, which he wrote shortly after World War II, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27. The diary will be...
Milos Pojar, post-communist Czechoslovakia's first ambassador to Israel, has died in Prague at the age of 71. The Czech media said Pojar, a writer, historian and diplomat, died Monday in a hospital in the Czech capital. As Czechoslovakia's first ambassador...
