We Re Czechs
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We Re Czechs
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Author : Skrabanek
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1989-02
We Re Czechs written by Skrabanek and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-02 with History categories.
Donated By : James, Virginia, & J.R. Gerick.
Czechs And Germans
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Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
language : en
Publisher: Wiskemann Press
Release Date : 2007-03
Czechs And Germans written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and has been published by Wiskemann Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03 with History categories.
Originally published in 1938, this early work by English historian Elizabeth Wiskemann is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details on the findings of her study into the lives of Germans living in Czechoslovakia during the early twentieth century. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in European history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Czechmate
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Author : Miloslav Rechcígl
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Czechmate written by Miloslav Rechcígl and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
These reminiscences are an intimate account of Mila Rechcgls saga, his fascinating life, his varied and successful professional career, and his highly visible public life, encompassing some fifty years, since the earliest childhood in a small hamlet in northeastern rural Bohemia to his government career in the Worlds Capital, Washington, DC and spending his retirement years in active scholarship and voluntary work for non-profit organizations. He views his life as a chess game, in which he confronts various challenges head-on, usually ending with a checkmate in his favor. He describes his idyllic youth at family mill, in an area known as Bohemian paradise, talks fondly of his parents and grandparents, the time he spent in a one-class rural school, followed by eight years in gymnasium in Mlada Boleslav, four during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and four in the post-War era under the communist threat. After successful escape from communist Czechoslovakia, he immigrates to America, spending his greenhorn years in New York City, working in a glass jewelry factory. He gets a scholarship, is accepted by a prestigious Ivy League school (Cornell) and with skimpy English manages getting his bachelors degree in biochemistry in two and half years, followed by Masters and Ph.D. Gets hired by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda where he conducts some pioneering research on enzyme turnover and later is offered training in science policy and administration, leading to his appointment as Special Assistant for Nutrition and Health, and later is put in charge of research at the US State Departments Agency for International Development. Beyond the call of duty, he publishes numerous books and in his spare time, devotes energies to organizing an international Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences into a first-class institution and does premier research on immigration history.
Czechs Won T Get Lost In The World Let Alone In America
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Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2018-05-02
Czechs Won T Get Lost In The World Let Alone In America written by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book features a panorama of the lives of selected personalities, whose roots had origin in the Czech lands and who, in the US, reached extraordinary success and who, with their activities, substantially influenced the growth and development of their new homeland. It is a saga of plain, as well as powerful, people whose influence and importance often exceeded the borders of the US. A great portion of included individuals may be unknown to readers since it concerns persons whose Czech origin was usually not known. The book covers the total period from the times of the discovery of New World to the end of the twentieth century. During the selection, little concern was given to nationalistic or ethnographic criteria, the only prerequisite was that the respected individuals were either born on the territory of the Czech lands or were descendants of emigrants from the Czech lands. The image on the front cover is a portrait of Augustine Herman, Lord of Bohemia Manor, the first documented Czech immigrant in the United States. The portrait comes from his famous Map of Maryland and Virginia, dated 1670. The colorful story of his life would be unbelievable if made into a movie. Pioneer, merchant, explorer, surveyor, map maker, patriot, rebel, diplomat, and finally Lord! Read more about him in the book.
We Were And We Shall Be
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Author : Zdenka Munzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
We Were And We Shall Be written by Zdenka Munzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Czechoslovakia categories.
A selection of texts in translation by key figures in Czech and Slovak cultural and political history illustrating the historical and cultural heritage of Czechoslovakia.
Czech And Mate
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Author : Fred Austin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Czech And Mate written by Fred Austin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Czechs categories.
Vanished History
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Author : Tomas Sniegon
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-05-30
Vanished History written by Tomas Sniegon and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-30 with History categories.
Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Not all Czechs, however, remained passive bystanders during the genocide. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia in 1938-39, Slovakia became a formally independent but fully subordinate satellite of Germany. Despite the fact it was not occupied until 1944, Slovakia paid Germany to deport its own Jewish citizens to extermination camps. About 270,000 out of the 360,000 Czech and Slovak casualties of World War II were victims of the Holocaust. Despite these statistics, the Holocaust vanished almost entirely from post-war Czechoslovak, and later Czech and Slovak, historical cultures. The communist dictatorship carried the main responsibility for this disappearance, yet the situation has not changed much since the fall of the communist regime. The main questions of this study are how and why the Holocaust was excluded from the Czech and Slovak history.
Soe In Czechoslovakia
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Author : F.E. Keary
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2022-09-21
Soe In Czechoslovakia written by F.E. Keary and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-21 with History categories.
The majority of the successful SOE operations in Europe took place in countries occupied by the Germans after the outbreak of war in 1939, Hitler’s forces being regarded as foreign invaders. In Czechoslovakia it was different. The country, which had large numbers of ethnic Germans living within its borders, had been occupied since 1938, allowing the Germans to establish a strong hold on the country which limited the opportunities for subversive action by resistance movements. Nevertheless, resist the Czechs did, despite the Germans conducting savage and indiscriminate reprisals. It was against this background that SOE attempted to infiltrate its agents into Czechoslovakia in 1941, their role being to help in co-ordinating and expanding the resistance movement and to establish communications with the Czech authorities in the UK. Successful actions were admittedly few before 1942 when one of the most successful SOE-backed operations resulted in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest-ranking Nazi to be killed by any resistance group. The huge wave of reprisals against the civilian population which followed severely hampered SOE activities in the immediate aftermath. Another factor which limited SOE’s ability to infiltrate Czechoslovakia and to supply the resistance was the distance and difficulty experienced by the RAF in flying to the region. During the short nights of summer, no flights could be attempted. This changed in September 1943 when sorties were able to be conducted from Italy, and by 1944 the scale of operations increased both in frequency and scale. More than 300 Czechs were trained by SOE and, in conjunction with local resistance groups, those that managed to infiltrate back into their homeland, kept the occupying forces constantly on the alert, ensuring that Germany’s eastern flank was never entirely secure. This is the first full, official account of SOE in Czechoslovakia, compiled by SOE headquarters staff who had direct access to all the organisation’s records, many of which were destroyed after the war.
Czechs Of Chicagoland
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Author : Malynne Sternstein
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Czechs Of Chicagoland written by Malynne Sternstein and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Chicago was once the second-largest Bohemian city outside the Czech lands. The Czechs first settled, serendipitously, behind the notorious O'Leary barn. Spared the Great Fire of 1871, they were displaced several blocks south by the ensuing land crush. There they built more permanent quarters in the community that became known as Pilsen, a neighborhood whose name and architecture survive to recall its Bohemian origins. The thriving Czechs soon began a century-long move westward from Lawndale to Cicero to Berwyn, and today they flourish across the western suburbs. From the desolation of the 1915 Eastland disaster, in which hundreds of victims were of Czech descent, to the triumphant Depression-era election of Czech-born mayor Antonín C?ermák, Czechs of Chicagoland depicts how the Czech community and its great leaders, benevolent societies, and charitable and social organizations have shaped and continue to shape the course of Chicago's history.
Beyond The Sea Of Beer
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Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2017-11-09
Beyond The Sea Of Beer written by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-09 with Social Science categories.
This is a comprehensive history of immigrants from the historic lands of the Bohemian Crown and its successor states, including Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, based on the painstaking lifetime research of the author. The reader will find lots of new information in this book that is not available elsewhere. The title of the book comes from a popular song of the famous Czech artistic duo, Voskovec and Werich, who described America in those words when they lived here, reflecting on their love for this country. It covers the period starting soon after the discovery of the New World to date. The emphasis is on the US, although Canada and Latin America are also covered. It covers the arrival and the settlement of the immigrants in various states and regions of America, their harsh beginnings, the establishment of their communities, and their organization. A separate section is devoted to the contributions of notable individuals in different areas of human endeavor, including Bohemians, Moravians, Bohemian Jews, and the Slovaks. These people excelled in just about every facet of human undertaking. Even though a total number of these immigrants were fewer than other ethnic groups, their accomplishments were phenomenal. Nothing like this has ever been published since the time Thomas Capek wrote his classic The Cechs (Bohemians) in America some one hundred years ago.