prague (czech republic)

A memoir of the life of Czech pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, a centenarian Holocauset survivor, and niece of author Franz Kafka.

In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague and she and her family endured the beginning of the Nazi invasion. Her father was denied work and she could not attend regular school. As she witnessed the increasing Nazi brutality she began a diary. In 1942, Helga and her parents were sent to Terezin where she continued her diary. In 1944 the family was moved to Auschwitz. But before Helga left Terezin, her uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. In one of the many miracles of Jewish Holocaust survivors, he was able to reclaim them for her after the war.

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

Best friends Dessy and Veronica travel to Prague to attend a prestigious writing workshop, but while Dessy is intent on mending a broken heart by applying herself to her studies, Veronica sets out to conquer the male population of the city, and both girls must rethink their goals when they are saddled with a homicidal suitemate.

In 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude's mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.

Led by a cat on a magical journey through Prague, a man encounters some of the city's landmarks and three traditional Czech fairy tales while trying to find the keys to his childhood home.

Led by a cat on a magical journey through the deserted streets of Prague, a man comes upon some of the city's landmarks and finds the keys to his childhood home in three traditional Czech tales.