Escape from the train

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… there. We hid in trains and we travelled all the way to Karviná. When a conductor came, we hid in the toilet. This way I got all the way to Karviná. (...) My dad arranged a hiding place for me in the …

Failed welcome of the president

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… the Auxiliary Technical Battalion members from the Ostrava-Karviná coal mining district in Karviná. There were about five thousand of us and we were …

Tragedies forced the mine management to address safety issues

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… to the Coal Scientific Research Institute. The Ostrava-Karviná mine (OKR) was in decline at that time. This was … such a huge impact on the mining activities in the Ostrava-Karviná district that the issues had to be addressed. And …

Work in a Mine Instead of University Studies

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… 1, 1951 to February 10, 1954, I worked in a pit in Ostrava-Karviná region almost every day, because then we also worked … to a civilian who was called a pitman in the Ostrava-Karviná region. We got a shovel; there was a lot of dust as … taken by an ambulance car to the barracks in Sovinec, in Karviná and I stayed there for several weeks. If I can say …

The management’s fear on the first anniversary of the Soviet occupation

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… back to work immediately because we had to fix a machine in Karviná. This had never happened before, that someone would … Slezská Opava, we learned that a bottle capping machine in Karviná had been broken. It was a machine for stoppering …

Return undesirable

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… and from there they were sent to the mine in Ostrava to Karviná, which was an army mine. And it was also said for …

Brother was expeled from school

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… And he got this command that he must go to Osoblaha near Karviná to some farm. They gathered these students there and …

There were fights there

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… 45, mainly in the area of the industrial part of today's Karviná, which means there in the area of Marklovice, in the …

Punishment - ban from Prague and work in the Karviná mines

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… Punishment - ban from Prague and work in the Karviná mines …

Hang Rhett, the workers shouted

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… of the windows of his office, that was Fryštát, nowadays Karviná, communists and workers were shouting: 'Hang Rett!'" …