Year 1968
(audio)… some living somehow. I got to know it so that I was in Karviná visiting a friend at that time. I slept then seldom … reputedly. So we sprang outside and on the main road in Karviná we saw the tanks. We didn´t know what was going on. …
Printing samizdat with his friends in early 1989
(video)… Those were people from Bohumín, Ostrava, Opava, Krnov, Karviná, Český Těšín, Havířov, it started snowballing like …
After arriving to the camp we quite anxious
(audio)… trucks were waiting for us. An office and trucks of Ostrava-Karviná mines. We still had the wooden suitcases. We got on …
Singing saved my life
(video)… in the afternoon the Communist Party conference was held in Karvina. The leader of our choir was asked to do a program …
Living at Liberty
(video)… released on December 31, 1953. When I was leaving Karviná, they allowed me to take my civilian clothing. …
Manifestation of miners against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies
(audio)… Someone read it and all the miners from the Ostrava-Karviná region gathered there. There were indeed thousands …
Miners
(video)… a part of the mine. I’ve been through the whole Ostrava-Karviná mine system because I was down in four shafts. So, …
We sat on standby and waited for an explosion to happen
(video)… in one of the shafts. They sent us and off we went. From Karviná, we were used to seams [of coal and thus the height …
Reconnoitring the Polish People’s Army in 1980
(audio)… of the 4th Army and chose those soldiers who came from Karviná, Ostrava, and who spoke very good Polish. It was …
When I came back from the military service, all hell broke loose with State Security
(video)… gentlemen waiting for me, so I understood. They took me to Karviná to their headquarters. There they left me waiting …