“..Although known for his work that dealt with the AIDS epidemic, Barton Benes (1942 - 2012) was a prolific artist who continuously worked with everyday objects... ” ...

ON June 10, 1942, LIDICE, a town in former Czechoslovakia, was completely destroyed on the orders of Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. The reason for LIDICE’s destruction was in reprisal for the ...

Tomorrow is September 6, a date that is one of the most important and significant in the history of our great city. For it was on this day in 1942 that local GP and councillor, Barnett Stross, ...

ON a visit I made to my native Czechoslovakia shortly before the recent Communist coup, I drove fifteen miles northwest of Prague one day to the little green valley, in the softly rolling hills of ...

A village in the Czech Republic is marking the 80th anniversary of its destruction by the Nazis and the kindness of the people of Stoke-on-Trent, who helped rebuild it. Lidice was razed and its ...

Prague, Feb 19 (CTK) – Vaclav Hanf, one of the survivors of the Czech Lidice village obliteration by Nazis in June 1942, has died after a long illness at the age of 82 years in a Prague hospital, the ...

Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. By 1942, the Nazis had already made it clear that they were not the kind of people ...

Hanley Town Hall will be lit in the colours of Lidice as part of the commemoration The relationship between Stoke-on-Trent and a village in the Czech Republic is to be commemorated 80 years after it ...