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Pour Féliciter 2012
30.12.2011We wish to all sponsors, partners, and readers of the Political prisoners.eu project a Merry Christmas and a Successful Year 2012.
Read moreLatest News on K. Ch. Documentary
26.12.2011See the progress of our latest project K. Ch. - a documentary on the tragic yet ultimately uplifting story of a young woman raped, impregnated, and forced to give birth to her prison guard’s child in a former-Czechoslovakian prison in 1948.
Read moreInvitation to 15th Forum 2000 Associated Event
1.10.2011We would like to invite you to an accompanying discussion panel at the occasion of the 15th international conference of Forum 2000 Foundation „Democracy and the Rule of Law“ that annually takes place in Prague under the auspices of Mr. Václav Havel. Our discussion panel is called „The Destinies of Women Political Prisoners in the Light of (Un)Rule of Law“. The event will be held on 11 October 2011 at 18:00 pm in the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Národní 3, Prague 1.
Read moreThe Fate of Czechoslovak Political Prisoners after Release
25.8.2011The full rehabilitation of Communist and non-Communist victims of Stalinist repression represented a major problem for the Czechoslovak Communist regime for decades. An article by Klára Pinerová.
Read moreK.Ch. - see our movie trailer
31.7.2011Allow us to inform you about the latest project of the volunteer research initiative Political Prisoners.eu: K.Ch., a documentary on the tragic yet ultimately uplifting story of a young woman raped, impregnated, and forced to give birth to her prison guard’s child in a former-Czechoslovakian prison in 1948.
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Welcome at the updated website of Political Prisoners.eu
This site was originally 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)
The published content was enriched, edited and updated in July 2011. Thanks to our volunteers we have proofread all our English interviews and made them more comprehensive.
This website became part of a trans-disciplinary, non-governmental and non-profit oral history project which aimed at commemoration of former political prisoners who survived jailing in Stalinist prisons and working camps in the former Czechoslovakia and other European countries. Later on in 2009, 2010 and 2011 we developed new initiatives, events and networks targeted at a more profound research interest in the field of oral histories of politically oppressed around the globe.
Commemoration of victims of Stalinism, in our opinion, was of an utmost importance not only when the whole world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of Iron Curtain. Former political prisoners were and still are the living witnesses of past. They certainly should not be heard only in times of anniversaries. Though we have probably last chances listening, researching and learning from their stories as we are the witnesses of the future and thus potential carriers of their disappearing thinking. We wish to contribute to the exchange and popularisation of their memories no matter how politicised here and then they are. This is why you can find here transcriptions of oral history interviews and narratives and short multimedia. Though we are mostly Czech researchers we are working on delivering more stories in English too.
We would like to invite everyone interested in supporting this project to contact us via email: info@politicalprisoners.eu.
Thank you in advance for your interest and help!
The Team of volunteer research initiative Political Prisoners.eu.
