The 750,000 Czech crowns ($31,000) memorial, paid for by a crowd-funding campaign, resembles the sun’s rays emanating from a circle, with the cobblestones stacked in walls of unequal height. In Prague ...

“Beware of faking,” Umberto Eco warned in his 1988 novel, Foucault’s Pendulum, “people will believe you.” Unless he forgot his own advice, Mr. Eco should have expected the storm of controversy ...

Red tape is holding up plans for a memorial to mark one of Europe’s oldest Jewish burial sites. The 750-year-old site on Prague’s Vladislavova Street attracted international attention several years ...

One of Prague's most emblematic places, the Old Jewish Cemetery made up of 12,000 tombstones all crammed into a tight space behind two synagogues, is being digitised in an effort to list all the ...

Tombstones broken into pieces PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police say unknown vandals knocked over 26 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery south of Prague. Police spokesman Miroslav Doubek says the tombstones were ...

Prague, June 26 (CTK) – Former political prisoners, state representatives and politicians commemorated the victims of the Czechoslovak Communist regime at the Prague-Dablice cemetery at which about ...

A controversial Russian memorial plaque in a Prague cemetery has been removed after complaints that it honored the Soviet-led troops who invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. Martin Cerveny, the ...