PUBLISHING INSTITUTIONS
I would take a book, warm socks, and some drink with me to the interrogations
Jiřina Čechová was born on 16 June 1937 in Bezkov, Znojmo District. During the war, Beskov was the only village in the area that was not annexed to the German Reich. After the Communist coup in 1948, the family suffered from the death of Jiřina's father, a former Czechoslovak legionary who had served in Russia. In 1955, after graduating from grammar school in Znojmo, she applied to Charles University in Prague, and five years later earned her degree in archiving. She worked in archives for some time; in 1965 she started working as a teacher at the Znojmo grammar school, thus discovering her life's calling. During the purge in 1970 she was fired from her post and earned a living doing temporary jobs. In 1975 she received an offer to work in Vysočina from her future husband, Miloslav Kabelka; they married soon after, and two years later she gave birth to their son Vojtěch. By then, Jiřina was already translating forbidden books, such as Orwell's Animal Farm; she and her husband also copi ...
Demonstrating with a bed sheet in Znojmo
born 20 December 1933 into the family of an officer of the Czechoslovak Army grew up in Chrudim; 1952, graduated from the local grammar school 1953, made the acquaintance of ...
born 9 October 1922 in Lanžhot as Věra Kotásková 1937, her father was employed at the Border Guard and the family moved to Břeclav 1938, the family fled from Břeclav to ...
born 13 July 1929 in Charváty near Olomouc the family was persecuted during the collectivisation served in the AEC in a coal mine in Kladno-Libušín for 27 months August ...
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12/11/2018
Dne 17. listopadu 2018 převezmou v Národním divadle v přímém přenosu České televize, slovenské RTVS a Českého rozhlasu Ceny Paměti národa čtyři výjimečné osobnosti.
01/11/2018, Tisková zpráva Post Bellum
Dne 11. listopadu slavíme Den válečných veteránů. Lidé si v tento den lidé připínají na klopy kvítek vlčího máku. Vyjadřují tím úctu těm, kteří bojovali za svobodu za první a druhé světové války nebo vojákům působícím v zahraničních vojenských misích.
12/06/2018, Tisková zpráva Post Bellum
Děkujeme všem, kteří běželi, pomáhali nám jako dobrovolníci, podpořili akci jako partneři a patroni. Díky vám jsme na další nahrávání vzpomínek pro Paměť národa vybrali 650 000 korun! V Praze, Plzni, Olomouci, Hradci Králové, Třebíči a „kdekoli“ se na start postavilo 1600 lidí. Moc nás to těší.