What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

Category: Directors

  • Originally published on X on 11 May 2024. Miloš Forman was born as Jan Tomáš Forman in Čáslav (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/07/02/prague-3-day-178-caslavska/) in 1932. His mother, Anna, was arrested by the Nazis for lying about her involvement in the distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets, and died of typhus at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943. His father, Rudolf (actually not his biological…