January 10, 2022

General George S. Patton Scholarship of Honor

General George S. Patton Scholarship of Honor

The deadline for the application of  of the General George S. Patton’s honorary scholarship is February 28, 2022. (deadline can be extended by agreement with sponsors)   General George S. Patton’s honorary scholarship is awarded to one of the Pilsen high school graduates who has decided to serve in the military, security…

January 10, 2022

EASTORY project – meeting of witnesses with high school students

EASTORY project – meeting of witnesses with high school students

The City of Pilsen acts as a partner in the project, others partners are the Bastogne War Museum, the Museum of the Armii Krajowej Kraków and the Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. The target group of the project are high school students who will get acquainted with the history of World War II…

October 25, 2022

80th Anniversary of the assassination of the Pilsen citizens at Mauthausen who helped the SOE agents and paratroopers flown from England

80th Anniversary of the assassination of the Pilsen citizens at Mauthausen who helped the SOE agents and paratroopers flown from England

Czechoslovak legionnaires association – Pilsen commemorated the 80th anniversary of the executions of the Pilsen patriots, the families of the Pilsen resistance fighters Bejbl, Hrdlička, Králov and Kučera. On October 24, 1942, a mass execution of relatives and associates of paratrooper agents took place at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Among them…