So different, yet together. Debate on Charter 77 (20. 1. 2022)
45 years ago, in January 1977, the Declaration of Charter 77 was published. How did all these totally different people manage to get along? We cordially invite you to...
Debate State of Emergency in Poland 1981 (15 Dec 2021)
There was a joke in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s: what is the difference between Augusto Pinochet and General Jaruzelski? Answer: four dioptres. The leader of the Polish United Workers' Party, as he...
Debate Hungarian Uprising 1956 (23. 11. 2021)
We cordially invite you to the debate evening of the Museum of Memory of the XXth Century at the Václav Havel Library. The topic will be the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956. After the bloody Soviet suppression, the...
Launch of Memories of a Czech-Canadian (15. 11. 2021)
The Museum of the Memory of the Twentieth Century has published a book of the memoirs of Miloš Šuchma, a Czech-Canadian who co-founded the Club of Committed Non-Partisans in 1968 and, after he went into exile, was...
First Martial Law Debate (22 Sep 2021)
Eighty years ago, in September 1941, Reinhard Heydrich became Acting Reich Protector and immediately after his arrival in Prague he declared martial law in the Protectorate. So-called....
School programme at the Unbreakable and Sacrificed Festival (11 and 12 November 2021)
We cordially invite teachers, students and pupils of primary and secondary schools to the educational programmes within the framework of the 2nd annual festival of documentary films about the 20th century Unbroken and Sacrificed. The screening of selected...
Debate 70 years of Radio Free Europe (online 20. 5. 2021)
On May 1, 1951, from a studio in Munich, Germany, the voice of free Czechoslovakia was heard for the first time on the air: the voice of free Czechoslovakia, the radio station Svobodna Evropa.
Invitation to a historical walk with Jiří Padevet (10 May 2021)
We offer a new historical educational walk through Prague. This time on the topic of the Prague Uprising in May 1945 with a member of the Board of Directors of the Museum of the Memory of the XX...
Hot Books in the Cold War Debate (online 22. 4. 2021)
In the spring of 1981, state security cracked down on the most important secret link between the domestic opposition and the democratic exile. The adventurous smuggling of printed matter across the border through this route has ended....