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Mother’s Day in the Czech lands was introduced by Alice Masaryková, the daughter of TGM
The holiday was inspired by the American version, which made it suspect under communism.
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Mother’s Day in the Czech Republic this year is celebrated on May 9. The holiday here has its roots in the First Republic, and it all but vanished in the communist era.
The first celebration of “Den matek” in then-Czechoslovakia was in 1926. Alice Masaryková, the daughter of first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk, was instrumental in introduction of the holiday.
It is based on the American model of always falling on the second Sunday in May, as Alice’s mother was American. The holiday had been celebrated in the U.S. starting in 1907, and became an official national holiday in 1914.