Saint Wenceslas, the Czech patron saint, was a key figure in the early history of the Czech lands. Now, more than a thousand years after his death, an international team of scientists has recreated what the Christian martyr may have looked like, using a skull believed to be his and state-of-the-art technology.

A small badge dating from the fourteenth century has gone on display in the Czech city of Opava. This unassuming object can tell us a great deal about how interconnected the world of a medieval Czech person really was.

Ukrainian historian Anna Khlebina, Czech historian Adam Hradilek, and their team are searching for the fate of Czechoslovaks in the gulags. They bring some of that history to life in Gulag and Czechoslovakia: War , the first book in a four-part series.

A unique research project is currently underway at Palacký University in Olomouc. Chemists are studying residues—possibly the remnants of ancient medicines—on medieval medical manuscripts and printed books. The project carried out in collaboration with medical experts, aims to shed new light on historical medical practices.

After seven years of research, scientists have confirmed the origin of human remains found in a mysterious chest in a church in Olomouc – they belonged to the city’s ancient Přemyslid rulers.

In January 1942, the Kohn family boarded a transport at the Pilsen railway station and never returned. Other tenants moved into their apartment and their belongings were gradually lost. Everything disappeared, except for the diary that twelve-year-old Věrka Kohnová wrote, documenting the last tragic year of her life.

A Museum of Survivors has opened near Brno, in the former factory of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II. Its official opening, held on May 10th, was planned to coincide with the celebrations marking eighty years since the end of WWII.

Felix Kafka was born in Prague almost exactly a century ago and escaped the Holocaust after being placed on one of the "kindertransports" to the UK organised by Nicholas Winton. He talked to Radio Prague International's Alex Rosenzweig from his home in England, where he has lived since 1939.

What do Czechs and Czech historians think about Czech treatment of the Jewish community in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Czechoslovakia in the 20th century? I spoke to historian Ivan Puš to understand the shifting narratives surrounding Jewish belonging in Czechoslovakia. We discussed Jewish assimilation before the Second World War, Czechoslovak attitudes toward Jews that evolved in the latter half of the 20th century, and the role of censorship until the political changes of 1989, among other topics.

On May 8th millions of people around Czechia rejoiced in the news that Germany had finally surrendered and the war was over. But for many inmates of the Terezín ghetto, the suffering was far from over. Many had nowhere to go and another 1,500 inmates succumbed to the typhus epidemic that spread through the camp.