The August invasion in Karviná
(audio)… "I worked on the tracks in Karviná. In the morning I was on my way to work and … Nobody talked about anything. Then we got out in Karviná and music was playing from the speakers. And I … speeding onwards. And at the station we had a sign saying Karviná-město. That was painted over and instead there was …
The accident at the Karviná coal mine in 1947
(video)… fell apart. I was in the wall and I was throwing. I was in Karviná and there were four-meter layers. Not in Ostrava, … forty centimeters in Ostrava, I was not there, but I was in Karviná. And there it fell. And there was also one part-time … The accident at the Karviná coal mine in 1947 …
Occupation in 1968 in Karviná
(audio)… our block of flats. We lived just at the Polish border in Karvina and there was no flight zone at all, there were no … Occupation in 1968 in Karviná …
1953 – Filling the Mines in Karviná
(audio)… “In Karviná I was transferred to the disciplinary unit and our … 1953 – Filling the Mines in Karviná …
Accident at the shaft called Mír in Karvina in PTP
(video)… trained as a pitman, Vasrpolák he was, who found a woman in Karviná and did not care much about the military service. … Accident at the shaft called Mír in Karvina in PTP …
Volsklist during the wars and the victory of the communists in Karviná
(audio)… would export to Poland, so communists won the elections in Karviná.“ … during the wars and the victory of the communists in Karviná …
Pathologists from all over the country arrived there
(audio)… took the first ten corpses to the institute of pathology in Karviná. They were those who had not been killed directly in that section. These ten were transported to Karviná and they were among the first ones who had their …
Father sealed his fate for the following twenty years
(audio)… “Until 1969 or 1970 we had a somewhat idyllic life in Karviná, where my parents were doing very well. My father … ideas that 1968 brought. Which was quite difficult in the Karviná region, as it had been a strongly Stalinist region … on TV and even called on the Russian garrison to leave the Karviná region – by doing that, he basically sealed his fate …
How the Porta Festival came into being
(video)… banned it. So we moved. The whole Porta moved and Karviná took us under its wing. In 1971 it was in Karviná. The next year it was banned there, so Sokolov, a …
Conditions in the 52nd PTP in Svatá Dobrotivá (1951)
(audio)… “As we arrived there, we were seized everything we got in Karviná. They took us everything except aluminum mess tin, … they shaved our heads. They did nothing of this with us in Karviná.” …