Parhaat Auschwitz Memorial Podcastit (2024)

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Prague hosts NATO Military Committee: what is on the agenda? 2:30

1d ago2:30

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The NATO Military Committee retreat in Prague, scheduled for this weekend, will focus on discussing Europe's security, the implementation of prior NATO Summit decisions, and the feasibility of the Alliance’s defense plans. This marks the first time Czechia hosts the meeting.

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The Jewish Museum in Prague celebrates 30 years since its return to the Jewish community 3:45

1d ago3:45

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This Sunday, the Jewish Museum in Prague is hosting a celebration at the Spanish Synagogue, to mark 30 years since the museum was put back into the care of the Czech Jewish community. Beginning at 2 pm, the event will include musical and theatrical entertainment for the whole family. From Polish 1930s jazz to Czech-German cabaret, this free event w…

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Czechia braces for flooding. The memory of 1997 and 2002 looms large. 2:55

3d ago2:55

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Czechia is bracing for potential severe flooding due to heavy rainfall which started on Thursday and is predicted to last for the next couple of days. Environment Minister Petr Hladík has likened the weather forecast to the years 1997 and 2002, when Czechia was hit by devastating floods. I asked hydrogeologist Jan Ďaňhelka if the situation is reall…

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New book pays tribute to pioneering ornithologist and resistance fighter Veleslav Wahl 14:00

3d ago14:00

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One of the winners of this year’s Most Beautiful Czech Books of the Year Award is Birds of Prague 1800-2020, published by the Czech Ornithological Society and Revolver Revue. It follows up on the work of the pioneering Czechoslovak ornithologist Veleslav Wahl, who was executed in 1951 by the Communist regime for alleged treason. The impressive volu…

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Want to try on the crown of Czech kings? Barrandov studios loans its film replica! 2:59

3d ago2:59

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The Crown of St. Wenceslas made for the coronation of Charles IV has a magic attraction. It is rarely put on display and people cue up for hours to see it. Few people know that there is a replica of it at Barrandov film studios that anyone can borrow.

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Informing the world about the horrors of Auschwitz: 100 years since the birth of Rudolf Vrba 3:29

4d ago3:29

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Today marks the centenary of the birth of Rudolf Vrba, a Czechoslovak and Jewish biochemist, who escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 together with fellow prisoner Alfréd Wetzler. Together they published the Vrba–Wetzler report. This eyewitness description is credited with waking the world up to the full horrors happening at Auschw…

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Economist: rigidity and outdated policies stifle Czechia's labor market 4:15

4d ago4:15

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Labor market conditions in Czechia have deteriorated for the third consecutive year and are now ranked as the tenth worst in the EU, primarily due to low flexibility and significant gender pay disparities. Despite having the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, Czechia is struggling to create favorable conditions for workers. I spoke to Lukáš Kovand…

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Antonín Dvořák and his enduring connection to Central Bohemia 14:24

4d ago14:24

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Antonín Dvořák is one of the greatest musicians that Czechia has given to the world. Throughout his life, he remained firmly rooted in his native region of Central Bohemia.

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Brno chemists uncover real heat behind mislabeled chilli peppers 2:59

5d ago2:59

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Chilli peppers may not always be as spicy as the label says. According to experts, manufacturers often do not even know how to measure the spiciness of their products correctly and sometimes quote values twice as high as the real strength. Chemists from the Brno University of Technology have therefore started testing chillis and trying to find out …

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Czech political scene increasingly polarized ahead of regional and Senate elections 3:39

5d ago3:39

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As the election campaign heats up in Czechia, tensions are high and some parties have resorted to controversial tactics. A racist billboard in Prague has sparked outrage and lawsuits.

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Catastrophic year for distilleries, opening path for black market 2:21

6d ago2:21

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According to the Distillers' Union, the distilling season in Czechia will be particularly bad this year. Fruit distillate production is expected to fall to about one fifth of last year's level – which was already bad. Between 20 and 30 percent of distilleries will not reopen because they are no longer profitable, the Distillers' Union has warned. A…

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Beaver tail, bear paws and squirrel meat: Olomouc exhibition presents historic cookbooks 3:27

6d ago3:27

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Beaver tail, bear paws or squirrel meat - these are just some of the ingredients from historic recipes currently on display at the Olomouc Research Library . The exhibition presenting unique cookbooks from the Middle Ages until the 1930s will run in the Moravian city until November.

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Czechs win 8 medals at the XVII Paralympics 3:42

6d ago3:42

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With 1 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals, Czech athletes finished in 53rd place in the national rankings. But the joy the Paralympics brought was first rate.

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Fort Hanička: intended as a nuclear shelter during totalitarianism, now it functions as a museum 2:49

9d ago2:49

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Built to protect Czechoslovakia against Nazi Germany and later repurposed as a nuclear shelter by the Communist regime, Fort Hanička served neither purpose. Today it is a museum that attracts thousands of military enthusiasts.

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Dvořákova Praha 2024: A celebration of Antonín Dvořák’s legacy 3:19

9d ago3:19

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The Dvořákova Praha festival brings world-class orchestras and soloists to Prague, showcasing not only Dvořák’s works but also compositions by other classical masters.

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Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:09:27

10d ago1:09:27

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In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitu…

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Colette Brull-Ulmann et al., "Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 3:08:45

14d ago3:08:45

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Today I talked to Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, the translators of Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) n 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By the age of twenty-one, she was in her second y…

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Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 1:09:25

20d ago1:09:25

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Marie-Eve Desrosiers (Univ. of Ottawa) has written a wonderful book. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide (Cambridge University Press, 20203) challenges scholarly and policy assumptions about the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide. Desrosiers…

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Laurien Vastenhout, "Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 1:28:15

23d ago1:28:15

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The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, there was extensive focus on these organisations' controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the…

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Susanne Barth, "From Schmelt Camp to 'Little Auschwitz': Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2024) 1:04:20

27d ago1:04:20

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From Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz" Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust (Purdue UP, 2024) is the first in-depth study of the second largest Auschwitz subcamp, Blechhammer (Blachownia Śląska), and its lesser known yet significant prehistory as a so-called Schmelt camp, a forced labor camp for Jews operating outside the concentration camp system.…

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Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024) 51:49

30d ago51:49

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A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires. Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton UP, 2024) is a pa…

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Andrew R. Basso, "Destroy Them Gradually: Displacement as Atrocity" (Rutgers UP, 2024) 1:13:07

1M ago1:13:07

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Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been trea…

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"On Auschwitz": Interview with Auschwitz Survivor Bogdan Bartnikowski on the 80th anniversary of his deportation to the camp. 49:52

1M ago49:52

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Bogdan Bartnikowski was born in Warsaw in 1932. During the Warsaw Uprising, he and his mother were expelled from their home. The Germans initially sent them to a transit camp in Pruszków, and then deported them to Auschwitz where they were separated. On January 11, 1945, both were evacuated to Berlin-Blankenburg, where they were imprisoned until th…

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Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020) 1:02:29

1M ago1:02:29

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With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. However, the material that remains for the work of remembering and commemorating this period of history is determined by both the bureaucratic excesses of the Nazi regime and the attempt to eradicate its victims without trace. Dora Osb…

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"On Auschwitz" (49): Deportations of Polish people from the uprising Warsaw to Auschwitz 51:25

1M ago51:25

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In August and September 1944 - after the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising - almost 13,000 inhabitants of the occupied capital city and surrounding towns: men, women, the elderly, children, even infants, were deported to Auschwitz by the German authorities. Dr. Wanda Witek-Malicka of the Auschwitz Museum Research Centre talks about their fate in the …

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Adara Goldberg, "Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955" (U Manitoba Press, 2015) 1:23:47

2M ago1:23:47

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In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the estab…

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Prague hosts NATO Military Committee: what is on the agenda? 2:30

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The Jewish Museum in Prague celebrates 30 years since its return to the Jewish community 3:45

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Czechia braces for flooding. The memory of 1997 and 2002 looms large. 2:55

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New book pays tribute to pioneering ornithologist and resistance fighter Veleslav Wahl 14:00

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Want to try on the crown of Czech kings? Barrandov studios loans its film replica! 2:59

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Informing the world about the horrors of Auschwitz: 100 years since the birth of Rudolf Vrba 3:29

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Economist: rigidity and outdated policies stifle Czechia's labor market 4:15

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Antonín Dvořák and his enduring connection to Central Bohemia 14:24

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Brno chemists uncover real heat behind mislabeled chilli peppers 2:59

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Czech political scene increasingly polarized ahead of regional and Senate elections 3:39

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Catastrophic year for distilleries, opening path for black market 2:21

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Beaver tail, bear paws and squirrel meat: Olomouc exhibition presents historic cookbooks 3:27

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Czechs win 8 medals at the XVII Paralympics 3:42

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Fort Hanička: intended as a nuclear shelter during totalitarianism, now it functions as a museum 2:49

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Dvořákova Praha 2024: A celebration of Antonín Dvořák’s legacy 3:19

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Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:09:27

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Colette Brull-Ulmann et al., "Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 3:08:45

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Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 1:09:25

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Laurien Vastenhout, "Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 1:28:15

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Susanne Barth, "From Schmelt Camp to 'Little Auschwitz': Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2024) 1:04:20

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Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024) 51:49

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Andrew R. Basso, "Destroy Them Gradually: Displacement as Atrocity" (Rutgers UP, 2024) 1:13:07

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"On Auschwitz": Interview with Auschwitz Survivor Bogdan Bartnikowski on the 80th anniversary of his deportation to the camp. 49:52

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Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020) 1:02:29

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"On Auschwitz" (49): Deportations of Polish people from the uprising Warsaw to Auschwitz 51:25

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Adara Goldberg, "Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955" (U Manitoba Press, 2015) 1:23:47

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