MH 13116. German troops entering the Castle District (Hradčany) in Prague March 1939.
Thirty years ago, Czech photographer Bohumil Eichler was working for a dissident student-run news agency when the Velvet Revolution began. His work from Prague has rarely been seen, until now.
Where do dictators go to relax? Much is known of how Hitler masterminded the war effort, but how did he spend his down time? He had surprisingly lavish tastes – as shown in these never-before-seen photos.
In 1997, a hemp rope dating back to 26,900 BC was found in Czechoslovakia, making it the oldest known object to be associated with marijuana. Since that time, hemp has played an important role in humanity’s development. For thousands of years marijuana was not only legal, but an important crop among cultures throughout history, and held commercial, medicinal, and spiritual value.
Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into.From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial--admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell--in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.
Leib and Gittel Moskowitz were both born and raised in Kuzmino, a small town in Transcarpathia, in what was then Czechoslovakia. As children they hardly knew each other. In May 1944 when they were both fifteen years old, they and their families were herded off to Auschwitz in cattle cars. From there, their paths temporarily diverged. Each was transported to a separate series of concentration and labor camps. Both miraculously survived their ordeals and after liberation spent many years waiting to come to the USA. Leib spent this time in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany while Gittel spent these same years in the United Kingdom. Their separate life trajectories re-converged when they both settled in New York where they became reacquainted, married and raised a family. This book chronicles Leib's and Gittel's turbulent Holocaust saga in their own words. Historical documentation is juxtaposed alongside their memoirs, as well as corroboratory documents obtained from the International Tracing Services (ITS) collection held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Yad Vashem, and numerous other sources. Photographs are also included to further corroborate their very clear and precise recollections. This book hopes to honor the many family members and countless of individual souls recollected by Leib and Gittel. Their memoirs not only testify to the ordeals suffered by these victims, but also shed light on the fate suffered by millions of martyred Jews, and of those fortunate enough to have survived. | Author: Nathan Moskowitz | Publisher: Shoah Forensics Art Institute Publications | Publication Date: Nov 12, 2014 | Number of Pages: 364 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0692222707 | ISBN-13: 9780692222706
Our trip to San Francisco. Any suggestions for Berlin and Prague?
Birth Name: Nicholas George Winton Nicknames: The British Schindler, Nicky Years Lived: May 19, 1909 – July 1, 2015 (106 years old) Place Born: West Hampstead, London, England Place Died: Slough,…
Glasgow-based designer Jane McDevitt collects vintage matchboxes. “It was the eastern bloc ones that stood out,” she says, “because they were so contemporary to their time: very mid-century modern and colourful.” Her collection embraces matchboxes from Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia from the 1950s to the 80s. These matchbooks feature no dire warnings on the affects … Continue reading "Matchbloc: Gorgeous East European Matchboxes"
