One Life recounts the inspiring true story of Nicholas Winton, a young London stockbroker on vacation in Prague in late 1938. Witnessing the plight of Jewish refugees facing persecution by the Nazis, Winton skips a planned ski holiday to join the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia to help save endangered Jewish children.

Tom Dine (AFoCR’s Chairman) and Milt Cerny (AFoCR’s Co-founder) recently reviewed the movie and they remind us of our actions taken to make sure the events are remembered.

Picture credit: BBC Film

In April 1990, Peter Bisek started publishing Czechoslovak Weekly, later renamed Americké Listy, in New York. By the mid-1990s, the publication already had a solid reputation, not just among its readers. It was extremely useful in the process of lobbying for the NATO expansion to include the countries of Central Europe. His recent article highlights the role of his publication, AFoCR and others in this process.

AFoCR takes great pride in its successful effort to promote NATO membership for the Czech Republic in the years preceding final accession in 1999, exactly twenty five years ago.

In 2000, AFoCR held a gala in New York awarding Madeleine Albright, then serving as Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, with the AFoCR Havel Civil Society Award for her essential leadership in the effort to achieve NATO expansion.

Picture: Czech President Havel, AFOCR President Milt Cerny and Madam Secretary Albright.

The letter is addressed to the US Congressional leadership, members of the Czech Caucus and the chairs of the key congressional committees.

We are pleased to welcome Major General Daryl Bohac and Professor Michael Svec as our newest directors.

The directors spent the weekend and participated in multiple meetings, events and activities.

Annual Freedom Lecture to be delivered by Mr. Rasto Kuzel, Executive Director of Memo98, who will discuss the importance of free and fair elections for democracy in the aftermath of the recent elections in Slovakia and Poland and ahead of the US elections in 2024.

Roger Kodat, the president of AFoCR, delivered remarks during the wreath laying ceremony at the Masaryk Memorial

AFoCR mourns the passing of our past president Peter A. Rafaeli, who died on October 11, 2023, at the age of 91.