czechoslovakia

In 1960s Czechoslovakia, Patrik participates in and rebels against the communist regime, knowing that anyone could become an enemy in the blink of an eye.

This semi-autobiographical Czech novel, first published underground in 1978, depicts the dilemmas of intellectual life under communist rule in Eastern Europe.

An anthology of art, poetry, stories, and articles from "Vedem, " a weekly magazine secretly produced by young teenage Jewish boys incarcerated at the Czechoslovakian concentration camp Terez?in during the years 1942-1944.

Madeleine Albright served as America's sixty-fourth secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 and she was part of the generation that lived through World War II. Before she was twelve, her native country, Czechoslovakia, was invaded by the Nazis. As her family fled, Madeleine experienced terror, the art of survival, and the bomb shelters of London. Many decades after the war she found out about her family's Jewish heritage.

Presents the diary entries of a young woman living in the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt, a model concentration camp designed by the Nazis to show to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations.

Offers a fictionalized account of the 1975 slaying of forty-nine giraffes at a zoo in a small Chechoslovakian town, following the story of the giraffes from their capture in Africa to their mysterious deaths.

Discusses the events behind Czechoslovakia's 1968 invasion by five fellow Communist countries.