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.

AFoCR welcomes the Czech President Petr Pavel during his first official visit to the United States.

AFOCR directors will have an opportunity to meet President Pavel and other Czech dignitaries during the gala organized at the Bohemian National Hall.

Jack White, a former member of the AFOCR’s board of directors, passed away on July 26, 2023. He was almost 102 years old.

He played an instrumental role in rebuilding the Woodrow Wilson statue in Prague and the installation of a statue of the first Czech president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in Washington D.C.

Semyon Bychkov leading the Czech Philharmonic during its two-concert engagement at Carnegie Hall in 2018. The orchestra is scheduled to be back in December 2024. ^{_{Credit...Rachel Papo for The New York Times}}

The Masaryk statue was a gift to the United States from the Czech Republic.

“Through these photographs, you’ll step into a country with a dramatic history … a place reminiscent of the poetics of a life that is disappearing forever.”