August 25th, 2020, BRATISLAVA — The U.S. Embassy, together with the daily SME and the city of Bratislava, marked 100 years of voting rights for Czechoslovak and American women in a successful online event with TED Talk-style addresses by extraordinary women. Ambassador Brink opened with remarks on the launch of the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity …
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[Podcast only available in the Slovak language] Listen to the latest podcast of the SME History special (SME Dejiny Špeciál) with Jaro Valent from the Historical Review (Historická revue) and guest Ivan Kamenec. In this final chapter, you will learn about the Holocaust and the atrocities committed before the concentration camps were discovered. When Allied soldiers liberated camps …
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Ambassador Bridget Brink visited another Slovak National Park, Slovensky Kras, where representatives of the State Nature Protection Agency, Ján Kilík and Ivan Koubek, showed her a site unique in Central Europe – the Silická Ice Cave. The Gemer region is very rich in natural beauty. Later, the Ambassador was warmly welcomed by the young Gömöri …
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