Dana Katharina Vaskova works in the Central Newsroom of RFE/RL in Prague.
The shocking death of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister – and son of its founding father -- just after the 1948 Communist coup was a pivotal moment in Cold War history. Based on new diplomatic cables, Czech police say they’ve reopened the investigation on grounds it may have been murder.
Around 700 paintings and drawings by a Jewish painter murdered during the Holocaust have been uncovered in a house in a Prague suburb that was being torn down. The works by Gertrud Kauders, who studied at Prague's Academy of Fine Arts, were found behind walls and under floorboards.
Two years after an art treasure with a harrowing backstory was uncovered in the walls of a Prague house, the holder has gone public with the historic scale of the discovery.
