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Women in communist prisons in the 1950s in Czechoslovakia: Understanding psychological effects of political imprisonment and ways of coping using oral history
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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Czechoslovak political prisoners: Return to Society
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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2010 IOHA PRAGUE
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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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.
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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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Mene Tekel Conference Paper
Here is the paper written by our conference participants for the International Conference Mene Tekel.
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The conference is successfully over and we go on with new plans and events!

Few days ago we had the closure of the first conference of politicalprisoners.eu. Hopefully you, our participants, have all arrived home safely or are still enjoying Prague and keeping in mind a nice memory.

On behalf of the organizing team we would like to say that it was a pleasure having you at the politicalprisoners.eu conference. We hope you have enjoyed it and learned as much as we did.

To find out if you really did so, we would like to ask you to send us your comments (or compliments:), which things did you like about the conference or which could be improved in your opinion? Don´t worry, we won´t bite you, nor publish it :-)

Your opinion is important for us, since it will be a possibility to improve future events. Ideally, we would have liked to have an evaluation at the end of the conference, after the Senat (the highlight of the conference), but travel schedules made it a bit complicated. That is why we would like to approach you in a digital way.

Your evaluation will be highly appreciated. Please send ythem to peter.luschen@politicalprisoners.eu .

Besides, we would like to ask you to send your BEST photos to Michal (michal.louc@politicalprisoners.eu), which could be uploaded to our website. Of course, all non publishable photos can be shared in a less 'formal' format.

Hope to hear from you soon and do not forget to spread the word about political prisoners.eu! Check our website regularly for future events and stay with us!