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Creative Workshop during the AEGEE Summer University took place in Prague
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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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Letter from Prison
Each letter from prison had to be censored, because it might have contained some forbidden information, complaints about treatment, or a negative comment on Communism. It was a censor who finally decided whether a letter would be sent or not. Unsent letters have been stored in personal files of the prisoner. Small things in a letter were blackened so the reader could not read it. Prisoners themselves sometimes called these letters to be stylistic essays because they could never freely write about what they had felt, lived through, or what their anguishes were. Mrs. Stuchlíková here writes a letter to her parents, where she is by the way also asking them, to bring her some little things she was missing in prison when they are coming for the next visit. What were the little things she wanted we cannot find out though, since the censor completely blackened this part of the letter. We can only argue and guess what was anti-communist and improper about the words.
Date of last edit: 5/8/2010 15:27:44
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