A Halych Physician This story started to unfold in the Halych region in West Ukraine. Specifically, in the then Lemberg, a town nowadays called Lviv. 18 January 1895, Michael Marzell Bohin was...
Life full of twists
Another story from the Terezín ghetto is the remembrance of a great actor and, above all, a great person Zdeněk Ornest. He was born in Kutná...
Who would have managed to do the same?
It was 21st June 1895 and in Smíchov, Prague, Přemysl Pitter, later a well-known Czech priest, writer, publicist, pacifist, and social...
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...
When hell reigned on earth
This story we did not write lightly at all. Especially because Mr. Miloš (Milouš) Volf, who it is dedicated, died in early 2014 at the age of 88...
Helga Pollak was born in Vienna on May 28, 1930 to Otto and Frieda (née Meisel) Pollak. Her father came from Kyjov from where he moved to Vienna. In 1916 he joined the army, got...
For love…
The life story of the student Rudolf Fantl is another proof of the protectorate conditions during the period of the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. Although the...
Catholic priest and theologian, 33rd Archbishop of Prague and Czech primas, political prisoner of two regimes, Josef Cardinal Beran was born on December 29, 1888. He was the oldest child of the...
A Halych Physician
This story started to unfold in the Halych region in West Ukraine. Specifi cally, in the then Lemberg, a town nowadays called Lviv. 18 January 1895, Michael Marzell...
The Baum Siblings
Anna and Jiří Baum were born in Prague, in the intellectual middle-class Jewish family of Josef and Frantisek Baum. Dad Josef Baum (* 14 June 1864), a successful...
To Live is Forbbiden The book of the same title by Jan Rakytka describes the life story of Felix Kolmer from his childhood to the end of the WWII.
It is based on his personal memories, so...
Fate written on the wings
“Coincidence does not help anyone who does not help themselves,” said Sofokles and some intricacies of human fate only prove it. That was the case...