The British public celebrated their relief that war had been, for the present, avoided. However, there was growing concern that Hitler was not, as Chamberlain believed, just another politician who ...

Winton had to arrange a foster family for every refugee who left Czechoslovakia ... World War Two to learn about their experiences. WW2: The Holocaust year by year. documentWW2: The Holocaust ...

The agreement, which allowed Hitler to annex the part of Czechoslovakia known as the Sudetenland, has been branded a “betrayal.” Hitler then proceeded to invade the rest of the country in 1939.

But many of the buildings that once housed tens of thousands of Jews, not only from Czechoslovakia but from across Europe, are now falling into disrepair. The BBC’s Prague correspondent Rob ...

My grandfather was 13 years old the day the Munich Agreement was signed in 1938. The pact ceded Czechoslovakia’s strategic Sudetenland region to Germany, in order to head off a German invasion ...

Anika Pavel fled Czechoslovakia for the UK and ended up as a James Bond actress A woman who fled communist Czechoslovakia for the UK in the 60s explained how she ended up finding Hollywood fame in ...

After the war, Bozdech and Antis returned to Czechoslovakia – only to flee the country amid the Communist coup of 1948 and return to Britain. The dog died in 1953 and was buried at Ilford animal ...