Escape from the train
(video)… 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
(audio)… 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
(video)… 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
(video)… 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
(audio)… 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
(audio)… 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
(audio)… 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
(audio)… 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
(audio)… Punishment - ban from Prague and work in the Karviná mines …
Hang Rhett, the workers shouted
(audio)… of the windows of his office, that was Fryštát, nowadays Karviná, communists and workers were shouting: 'Hang Rett!'" …