How letters were illegally sent out from Karviná prison

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… How letters were illegally sent out from Karviná prison …

We were told that as PTP (the Auxiliary Engineering Corps, the AEC) we were the dregs of society

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… where the President Gottwald mine was in Horní Suchý near Karviná, where I spent the 25 months afterwards, we were …

Story of a German friend

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… grade of higher elementary. His father was a miner in Karviná. He wanted him to become a businessman, and …

A song of PTP members paying tribute to smothered friends (1951)

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… made up a song for them, if I can share: ‘Near Ostrava, in Karviná, thousand meters down, there Slovak boys are mining …

Ways to obtain German citizenship

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… asked for the Volksliste by ourselves. In our district of Karviná, nobody wanted the Volksliste voluntarily. Moreover, …

Effort to get back the family farm and impacts of collectivisation

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… to speak to comrade Novák. He told me if I got back to Karviná, it would be settled in a week. He was telling my …

Working in Parents' Association

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… “Remembering my daughter when she attended the Karviná school, I was active in the parents’s association …

Ban on prist´s job

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… before I was a priest, I was digging coal in the mine in Karviná and these hand were making nine thousand crowns a …

Video - the PTP experience

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… directly to the Hrdlovka mine near Most. Then we moved to Karviná and finally to Orlová. We were chosen to do this …

Návštěva Jana Masaryka u Dunkerku 28. října 1944

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… aby za mě stráž vzal. Jmenoval se Václavek a byl z Karviné. Říkal, že je mu to jedno, jestli uvidí Masaryka, …