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Download Czechoslovak Politcal Prisoners for free now!
The book of 5 male and 5 female life stories of former Czechoslovak political prisoners is now available on our web for free.
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Creative Workshop during the AEGEE Summer University
Creative Workshop during the AEGEE Summer University took place in Prague
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Public Debate on the Commemoration Day of Political Prisoners in Jáchymov
Politicalprisoners.eu visited the town of Jáchymov in north-west Bohemia on 22-23May 2009.
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Governmental Support
Volunteer initiative politicalprisoners.eu was supported by the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic.
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Escape from Ilava
Towards the end of the year1950 a transport of eighty plus prisoners was sent in two busloads from the notorious jail Bory, near Pilsen, to the near empty jail in Ilava in western Slovakia...
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International workshop „Life in the Stalinist Labor Camps“ took place in Prague
The volunteer initiative politicalprisoners.eu organized another youth event dedicated to commemoration of victims of Stalinism.
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Our childhood experience with communism
The Memories of the daughters of a political prisoner – Maria a Jana Jurčovičová from Slovakia. This paper was presented at the International Youth Conference in Prague: "Life Stories of Victims of Stalinism".
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The Mene Tekel conference paper
Here is the paper written by our conference participants for the International Conference Mene Tekel.
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News Archive
You will find the older news here.
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Welcome

Welcome

This site was maintained in the fall 2008 with the following objectives:

  • attract the attention of youth and wide public by publishing life stories of former prisoners of Stalinism
  • offer the stories in written as well as video and audio formats (short sequences)

This communication tool is part of a trans-disciplinary, non-governmental and non-profit project which aims at commemoration of former political prisoners who survived jailing in Stalinist prisons and working camps in the former Czechoslovakia and other European countries.

Commemoration of victims of Stalinism is of an utmost importance especially now when the whole world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of Iron Curtain. Political prisoners are the witnesses of past. We have probably the last chance in our lives to listen and learn from them as we are the witnesses of the future. Only such an exchange of wisdom will guarantee a common knowledge of the historical failures and active remembrance of its victims.

We would like to invite everyone interested in supporting this project to contact us via email here.


Thank you in advance for your interest and help!

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Projekt byl podpořen odborem informování o evropských záležitostech Úřadu vlády České republiky

Projekt byl podpořen odborem informování o evropských záležitostech Úřadu vlády České republiky