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Czech Societies of Exact Sciences in the 19th Century
Jindra, Jiří
Account of Czech scientific societies operating in the Czech Lands since the 19th century is presented. In mathematics, physics and astronomy there was the Union of Czech Mathematicians with the students' Club for Free Lectures in Mathematics and Physics as its predecessor. The chemists were organized in the Club of Czech Chemists with the students' Club for Natural Sciences "ISIS" as its predecessor. All other scientific branches flourished under the Club of Natural Scientists. The Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists and Czech Chemical Society are two contemporary societies with an uninterrupted activity.
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Issue of Article 10 of Retribution Decree Nr. 16/1945 (taking Advantage of Racial Persecution for Personal Enrichment) on the Basis of Cases of the Special People's Courts in Prague and Litoměřice
Bednařík, Petr
Special People's Courts (1945-47) had to adress a number of cases, in which a Jew did not get back property from a neighboring Czech after the WW II. The Czechs would often try to explain why, for various reasons, the items in question disappeared. Excuses included confiscation by the Gestapo, and thefts of the items from the hiding place etc. Such claims were not very convincing. The Jewish owner (or his relatives in the event that the owner had not survived) had no witness who could confirm that he had actually handed the items to the Czech person for safekeeping during the occupation. The Jews, however, had no witness at all and, therefore, the Special People's Courts had to acquit the accused. We have reason to believe that a number of people, who used racial persecution for personal enrichment, were not after the war properly punished.
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Relationship between Jews and Czech Society - the Case Varnsdorf in Czech Press 1947
Bednařík, Petr
Paper is dedicated to the case of strike in March 1947. The strike in Varnsdorf was provoked by Revolutionary Trade Unions against Emil Beer. He came back from the exile in England after the WW II and as a Czech citizen - Jew he applied for the restitution his factory in the town Varnsdorf in northern Bohemia. According to law this restitution was certified by the court but Revolutionary Trade Unions and Communist Party organized the strike of works against its enforcement. The paper deals with kinds of reports about the strike and the enquitry in Czech press. It is shown that the leftist press created the Beer's negative image when some statements were suppressived purposely or were not indicated exactly.
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National Eugenics - Eugenic Nation
Šimůnek, Michal V.
The study is devoted to the clarification of the terms of nation, race and so called normal constitution from the point of view of period science of heredity. As a attachement there is a list of lectures organized by the Czech Eugenics Society at the turn of the years 1918-1919.
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Czech Eugenics and the Great War
Šimůnek, Michal V.
The study focus on the development of the eugenic movement in the Czech Lands before and during the Great War. Very specific position takes the analysis of the reception of classical genetics and increasing genetic knowledge between 1900-1915. Mentioned are the period leading figures like Ladislav Haškovec, Vladislav Růžička, František Čáda and Jaroslav Kříženecký.
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