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Newsletter of the Twentieth Century Memorial Museum
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EXHIBITION EUROPEAN GULAG
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For more than a decade of the twentieth century, at least 800 labour camps existed in the territory of the current European Union and its immediate neighbours. Nearly one and a half million people were imprisoned in them, 130 000 of whom died. No trace of most of them remains. We invite you to the opening of the exhibition European GULAG, which will take place on Wednesday 7 June 2023 at 6 pm in the refectory of the Convent of Our Lady of the Snows on Jungmann Square in Prague.
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TOUCHES OF UNDERGROUND AND BREVNOV
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In just a few days, there will be a historical walk through the pubs and other places in Břevnov associated with the formation of the band The Plastic People of the Universe and the underground community of the 1970s and 1980s. The guide will be František Čuňas Stárek. The walk will take place on 6 June 2023, meeting at 5 p.m. in front of the U Holečků restaurant, 6 Libocká Street, Prague 6.
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DEFIANT WOMEN IN THE ERA OF NORMALIZATION
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Open flats during closed hours. Islands of freedom despite the constant threat of its withdrawal. And women hosts, women wives, women mothers, women activists... How did they live in their open flats? We invite you to a debate at the Václav Havel Library on 21 June 2023 at 7 pm.
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JAN PALACH AND PRAGUE PLACES OF MEMORY
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On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 , a walk with historian Petr Blažek will take place in the footsteps of Jan Palach and the Prague sites associated with him. Meet at 5 pm in the park at Těšnov near Florence.
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OPEN DAY AT THE GUEST HOUSE
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On Monday, 26 June 2023, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Communist Regime, we invite you to the House of Pážat at Hradčany, where a presentation of Jiří Sozanský's book Valdice / Condemned to Nonexistence will take place from 6 pm. This will be followed by a concert by the musical group Svatopluk, inspired by and named after the evangelical priest and singer-songwriter Svatopluk Karásek. The House of Passions can be found on the border of Hradčany and Nový Svět, Kanovnická 3, Prague 1.
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The museum acquired the Hunger Crown for its collections . It was an anti-communist leaflet commemorating the new Czechoslovak one-crown banknote from the period after the currency reform in 1953, the anniversary of which is commemorated this year on 1 June. This monstrous 'theft in broad daylight', known only to the top brass of the Communist Party, deprived the people of Czechoslovakia of most of their savings. Hungry crowns fell from balloons on Czechoslovakia in the hundreds of thousands, reminding the population of the failure of the Communist Party's post-February economic policy and calling on the population to resist Soviet domination. The Hunger Crown was donated to the museum by Radek Schovánek.
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May marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Egon Hostovský, a Czech writer and diplomat, an exile, a foreigner who spent his life looking for an apartment and, above all, a lost home. Almost his entire family died during the Second World War, and he fled to America to escape communism, just as he had fled Nazism a few years earlier. In his books, between fantasy dreams and reality, spy and psychological dramas take place against the backdrop of sultry small towns and depressing metropolises against the backdrop of pre-February frosty Czechoslovakia and the Czech exile community in the United States.
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Born on 23 April 1907 in Hronov, he came from a Jewish family. He did not complete his studies at the Faculty of Arts in Prague and Vienna. Until 1937 he worked as a publishing editor and lecturer, then he worked for the Foreign Ministry.
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SEVENTY YEARS AGO, MONETARY REFORM WAS ANNOUNCED
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As late as Friday, 29 May 1953, President Antonín Zápotocký declared that there would be no monetary reform, that these were all rumours spread by class enemies. Meanwhile, the new banknotes had long since been printed in the Soviet Union. The currency reform and the related protests were the subject of a paper by historian Jakub Šlouf at the conference 1953: The End of Stalinism?, organised in March 2023 by Twentieth Century Memorial Museum and the ISTR, which you can recall here, along with a number of other interesting presentations:
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VIDEO INVITATION TO THE EXHIBITION EUROPEAN GULAG
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War Memorial Lešetice near Příbram. This camp, originally intended for German prisoners of war and situated among former uranium mines, served as a forced labour camp in 1949-1951 and then as a prison facility for political opponents of the communist regime until 1961. It was here that the invitation to an exhibition tracing the history of European labour camps from the 1940s to the 1980s was created.
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Video invitation to the European GULAG exhibition
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