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5. červ­na 2021 se uskutečnil náš v his­torii 1. vir­tuál­ní kon­gres, kterého se zúčast­ni­ly kanad­ské pobočky a naši vzác­ní hosté — Bořek Lizec, PhD, velvys­lanec ČR v Kanadě,  Petr Buriánek, gen­erál­ní konzul ČR v Toron­tu, Robert Tmej, pres­i­dent, Masaryk Memo­r­i­al Insti­tute, a Věra Tichá, předsed­kyně, Sokol Toron­to. S velk­ou radostí vám ozna­mu­jeme, že nedávno vznikla …

Dear Pres­i­dent Fearon, The Czech and Slo­vak Asso­ci­a­tion of Cana­da, an orga­ni­za­tion rep­re­sent­ing Czech and Slo­vak Cana­di­ans, was found­ed in June 1939 — after Czecho­slo­va­kia was occu­pied by Nazi Ger­many. Dur­ing the Ger­man occu­pa­tion many peo­ple were exe­cut­ed and deport­ed to con­cen­tra­tion camps. Yet sol­diers who man­aged to flee went to join the Allies in …

Call­ing all descen­dants of for­mer Czech/Slovak/Hungarian refugees who came to Britain and found refuge in the CRTF hos­tels in Mar­gate, Kent in August/September 1939, or lat­er trans­ferred to the CRTF hos­tel in Kingston-upon-Thames, Sur­rey in 1940. Katharine Whitak­er, fam­i­ly his­to­ri­an, whose father Mik­lós Majer (angli­cised to Nicholas May­er) left Czecho­slo­va­kia with help from CRTF and …