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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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life stories
Květoslava Moravečková
Květoslava Moravečková was a teacher in a nursery school. She was arrested in 1952 because of hiding a secret agent. She was sentenced to ten years of prison.
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Jan Pospíšil
Jan Pospíšil is the oldest of our narrators. Born in 1916 he witnessed most of the 20th century. Working for a non-communist minister brought him to prisons and the Jáchymov uranium grinder. He was sentenced to 20 years of political captivity.
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Hubert Procházka
Hubert Procházka was arrested for eleven years of prison as a member of a group “Beneš Scout Revolt.” He also worked three years in the so called Tower of Death where uranium ore was milled in the Jáchymov labor camp “L.”
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Drahomíra Stuchlíková
Drahomíra Stuchlíková was born on 19 December 1919 in Prague, the Czech Republic. She worked as a bookkeeper in a German-Czech Company and later in the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce. She was arrested on 6 June 1949 because of printing information leaflets. She was sentenced to 13 years of prison.
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Hana Truncová
Hana Truncová was born in a trading family in Teplice in 1924. She was arrested in 1951 because of assisting at illegal border crossings in the communist Czechoslovakia. She was also printing leaflets against the Communist Party after 1948. She was sentenced to thirteen years of prison. She was released in 1960.
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