PUBLISHING INSTITUTIONS
I want to be an honest and good person and have compassion with people
Anna Tesařová-Koutná, née Boháčová, was born March 24, 1933 in Železné hory. Her mother was a widow and Anna and her four siblings became orphans several years later. She grew up in a children's home as well as in adoptive families. Anna did not pursue advanced studies and eventually she did a one-year course for secretaries, where she learnt typewriting very well. She was a member of the Czechoslovak Youth Union (ČSM) and later of the Communist Party as well. Anna lived in Brno and she married Karel Koutný, an officer of the Czechoslovak army. They had two children, Marie and Broňa. After the invasion in 1968, both of them willingly failed the subsequent political screenings and they were dismissed from the Party. Anna Tesařová-Koutná then began transcribing various pamphlets and texts which later became regarded as anti-communist. Her husband was sometimes helping her. They were both imprisoned for this activity after the so-called pamphlet operation in the early 1970s. A number of s ...
How she started transcribing the samizdat
Born on October 31, 1942, in Pilsen Her father Josef Zdráhal was a successful sport equipment producer After the war her father bought an apartment house in Pilsen, the ...
Born on November 15, 1935, in Prague Her father was the great niece of politician Antonín Švehla Her grandfather on her mother's side was the director of Baťa's Prague ...
born on 5 July 1931 in Benátky nad Jizerou grew up in Turnov, later in Hradec Králové and since 1937 in Prague studied at a grammar school in Truhlářská street; graduated in ...
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12/06/2018, Tisková zpráva Post Bellum
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29/05/2018
Expozice umístěná na návěsu kamionu vypráví 12 příběhů ze šesti zemí Evropy. Zahájili jsme ji 17. května ve slovenské Stupavě a 29. května měla vernisáž v centru Budapešti. Výstava Memory of Nations: Yes/No (Paměť národa: Ano/Ne) procestuje Evropu a v říjnu ji představíme v Praze.
01/05/2018
Post Bellum přichází s novou vzdělávací aktivitou. Vytvoří sedm kvalitních modulů k rozvoji klíčových kompetencí žáků účinným a účelným propojením formálního a neformálního vzdělávání na 'pozadí' příběhů pamětníků 20. století.