Seminar at the University Hradec Kralove by Dr. Jana Svehlova
Photos by Michal Kuchta
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Spring Meeting 2007
April 25, 2007 Photos by Michal Kuchta
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Daughters meet with Gary Powers and Simon Frey
During the festival Mene Tekel, we met with F.G. Powers and a photographer Simon Frey. Photos by Michal Kuchta
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Setkání na pobočce KPV 15, podzim 2006
Photos by Michal Kuchta
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Sovovy mlyny 25.3.2006
Photos by Michal Kuchta
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Everybody is responsible for one’s luck, but totalitarians are responsible for misfortune of others.
Or — every story has its prologue. The story of our family, persecuted during the communist era, is like a story of thousands of individuals and their families. The prologue of those family tragedies goes back to the 1930s when our future communist president Gottwald said in the Parliament, „ We Communists go to Moscow to learn how to break…
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I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust
I was born into a family that hid in different locations in Slovakia during World War II. My parents succeeded hiding with their little girl thanks to false documents showing they were not Jewish. But in 1943, someone informed on them and they were deported to the Terezienstadt concentration camp. When the war was over, the return home was not a happy one.…
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Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th century
Ivan Margolius On returning to Prague I imagined I had seen my father. His slim figure, elegantly dressed in a dark single-breasted suit, white shirt and blue tie appeared in the distance. He paused at Knihy bookshop in Na Příkopě Street to look inside and check his reflection in the shop window. His hair was swept back, the receding hairline…
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The secret police kidnapped me when I was a baby
Jarmila remembers: “After they arrested our parents, my brother ended up in a children’s institution and I was kidnapped by the security police and placed with a couple somewhere in the mountains. Because they changed my last name. my relatives had a hard time to find me. I didn’t have many relatives; most died during the Holocaust.