This month marks the 70th anniversary of the infamous Slánský trial, a 1952 antisemitic show trial against Communist Party members in Czechoslovakia. Ten defendants of Jewish origin, including Rudolf ...

Rudolf Slansky, a tall, red-haired butcher’s son from a village near Pilsen, was a devoted Communist. A member of the Czech party since he was 18, he made a fine hatchetman—unmoved by compassion, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A film purporting to show the courtroom confession of Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the Communist Party and former Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia, who was executed in the anti-Semitic purges of ...

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 ...