ROB CAMERON

The story of the late Nicholas Winton, the British stockbroker who helped save hundreds of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis, has been immortalised in books, documentaries and films – most recently One Life. In 2011, Sir Nicholas was in Prague to attend the premiere of the film Nicky’s Family, and to meet some of those he had helped to save.

Czechs and Slovaks are marking the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most senior figures in Nazi Germany. Heydrich was mortally wounded by Czechoslovak parachutists Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík on May 27, 1942. The BBC spoke to fellow resistance fighter Alois Denemarek, one of the last people to see Kubiš alive.

The Rudolfinum concert hall witnessed a rare event this weekend – a group of Romani musicians paired with a Czech choir. The Frankfurt-based Roma and Sinti Philharmonic Orchestra was in Prague to perform Requiem for Auschwitz, by Swiss-born Roma composer Roger Moreno. He told me the piece was dedicated to all who passed through the gates of Auschwitz.

Slovakia has called on Hungary to extradite 97-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect László Csatáry, over his alleged role in the murder of 15,700 Jews in the Slovak city of Košice during the war. Csatary was tracked down in Budapest in August 2012, and is now being questioned by Hungarian prosecutors for war crimes. He escaped to Canada after the war.

The assassination of senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík in 1942 was one of the outstanding feats of daring in World War Two. The killing led to terrible reprisals, not least for the pair themselves, who were surrounded and killed by the Germans. But one question has long troubled historians: where are their bodies?

Plans to rehabilitate a pre-war Jewish cemetery in the Czech town of Prostějov have run into fierce local opposition, torpedoed by deliberate misinformation and anti-Semitism. Tombstones from the town’s old Jewish cemetery were looted and handed out to locals in 1943 – and many of them still pave people’s backyards and cellars.

For decades, archaeologists have grappled with the identity of a 10th-Century skeleton discovered at Prague Castle. The remains were exploited by both the Nazis and Soviets for ideological purposes, claiming it as proof of a pre-existing Germanic – or Slavic – presence. But attempts to pin a clear ethnic label on a 1,000-year-old corpse perhaps reveal more about us than him.

150,000 Jews from across Europe were interned in the Terezín – or Theresienstadt – ghetto during WW2. It was a transit camp – where Jews were gathered before being sent eastwards to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Conditions at Terezín were horrific, and some 35,000 died there. But eighty years on, the buildings themselves are falling into ruin.

Milena Fleischmann was nine when she boarded a train in Prague to begin a new life in England. She was clutching a card, showing she had been granted leave by His Majesty’s Government to enter the U.K. – one of only a handful of Jewish children allowed to do so. Only decades later did she learn that her escape from the Nazis had been organised by Sir Nicholas Winton.