"I read a lot in prison"
(video)… I read a lot about the imprisoned. I reread Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago". I read Soviet dissidents, especially …
Dad was wounded in Dukla Pass
(audio)… there, badly, they were threatened with ending up in the gulag, not to be glorified, it was bad. Dad reached the …
Once in the morning a loading vehicle arrived and took us
(audio)… "They moved us. As we were gulags and had hectars of land, right? One in the morning a …
Beneš was the dearest for us!
(audio)… USSR, our liaison officers were trying to find out in which Gulags our people were being held. But that was extremely … secret and were uneasy about releasing our people from the Gulag. I can tell you that only a fifth of us got out of the …
The mission of the Karta magazine in the past and today
(video)… In our underground days we recorded a thousand stories from gulags. It is a unique collection. We made a huge list of … working with Memorial, recovering transport lists from gulags. For 20 years we also organised history competitions …
Encounter with communism
(audio)… caught you, threw you into the car and you had to go to gulag. The landlady told me back then, there were app. 15 … even it was horrible that way, nobody had to leave to gulags and could end up being killed at home. Then the lady …
Partisans took away two alleged Nazis from Štolnava
(video)… in Prague for one year and then they were sent to a gulag probably in Abkhazia. I don’t know this precisely. … Emil Rotter then returned to West Germany. He described the gulag and the transport. When his family was leaving, they …