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Ghosts of Prague’s historic Golden Lane FEATURE 06/14/2011

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Ghosts of Prague’s historic Golden Lane

FEATURE

06/14/2011
PRAGUE — Kveta Zrustova, 91, can clearly recall the spring day in 1938 when she entered a tiny house in Prague’s famed Golden Lane to ask advice from the fortune teller Madame de Thebes.

“I was scared stiff. She was sitting in the corner with a cat on her shoulder,” said Zrustova who was 18 and wanted to know how her school exams would go.

Madame de Thebes, who later died during interrogation by the Nazis after predicting the fall of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, was just one of the colorful real-life residents of the historic street..... MORE

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