Said Rudolf Slansky, ex-secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, in a tired, mechanical monotone: “I have committed a great crime against the Czechoslovak people, and I therefore face ...

Soon, there will be two films in New York theaters about the experience of Czech Jews during the Holocaust and the Communist terror that followed. Focusing on the ...

A number of defendants in the famous Slansky trial which triggered anti-Jewish arrests and purges in various Communist countries four years ago have been released with little fanfare, it was reported ...

The documentary film "A Trial in Prague" is about the Slansky trials which took place in Prague in 1952. During the last five years of Stalin's rule, as Israel turned more and more to the West, the ...