Wednesday,
16 April 2025
Vale: George Kraus - avid artist, community member and family man

IN JANUARY 1950 Jiri (George) Kraus was born in Prague, during a time where hardline communists ruled eastern Europe.

Despite George’s love of and skills in art and music at school, a lack of ‘connections’, family support and money meant he learnt a trade.

In 1968 during the Prague Spring and shortly after George turned 18 young people, including George, protested in Prague against the hardlin...

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