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The paper presented by Kristýna Bušková at the XVI. International Oral History Conference, "Between Past and Future: Oral History, Memory and Meaning" in Prague.
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The paper by Michal Louč presented at the XVI. International Oral History Conference, "Between Past and Future: Oral History, Memory and Meaning" in Prague.
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Volunteer initiative Political Prisoners.eu participated actively at the Sixteenth International Oral History Conference, "Between Past and Future: Oral History, Memory and Meaning" that was held in Prague.
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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 took place in Prague
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Politicalprisoners.eu visited the town of Jáchymov in north-west Bohemia on 22-23May 2009.
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Volunteer initiative politicalprisoners.eu was supported by the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic.
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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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The volunteer initiative politicalprisoners.eu organized another youth event dedicated to commemoration of victims of Stalinism.
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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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Here is the paper written by our conference participants for the International Conference Mene Tekel.
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Download Czechoslovak Political 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. Download pdf version of the whole book. Use it for teaching, as an educational or empirical material for your paper or thesis. Our volunteer initiative finally delivered oral histories of Czechoslovak survivors of Stalinism in English. Although the Czech-English language barrier still proves a challenge, we hope to overcome this, given time. But for now, we are taking small steps and hope you will excuse lower quality of the translated texts.
This book is part of a larger project targeted at commemorating victims and survivors of Stalinism. We, the young volunteers from the Czech Republic, are introducing life stories of former political prisoners as an educational tool for youth and wider public. Lives of political prisoners persecuted in 1950s, then young people themselves, seem hardly believable today. It is the very subject of our interest, the narrators and their personal beliefs, strengths and hopes that underline the times when Europe was split into two ideological blocs. It is their stories that question thebasic values we take for granted nowadays. It is their voices that commemorate the victims and survivors of Stalinism.
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