When we hear the word "gulag", we first think of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's book The GULAG Archipelago: a system of thousands of forced labour camps spread across the entire expanse of the Soviet Union. However, an almost identical system existed in every country that the Communists took over after the Second World War - including Czechoslovakia. For more than a decade, there were at least 800 camps operating in what is now the European Union and its immediate neighbours. Nearly 1 500 000 people were imprisoned there, of whom 130 000 died. The Czech-English catalogue for the international exhibition European GULAG presents photographs, stories and hard facts, documenting the labour camps where people lived, worked and often died in slave-like conditions, sometimes without any conviction, and of which in most cases no material traces remain. The book also mentions, among other things, the Czechoslovaks taken to the Soviet camps and mentions the role of the West, which was long reluctant to admit the truth about the new "concentration" camps on the territory of its recent ally in the fight against Nazism. The catalogue is based on the Czech version of the exhibition prepared by the Museum of Memory of the XXth Century and the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.
Bibliographic data
Title: Evropský Gulag / European Gulag
- Editors: Łukasz Kamiński, Wojciech Bednarski, Petr Blažek
- Authors: Maria Axinte, Wojciech Bednarski, László Bíró, Petr Blažek, Detelina Dineva, Miha Drobnič, Jan Dvořák, Toomas Hiio, Adam Hradílek, Gergely Isó, Peeter Kaasik, Łukasz Kamiński, Joanna Kumor, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Greta Paskočiumaitė, Jerguš Sivoš, Domokos Szokolay
- Publisher: Museum of Memory of the XXth Century - Platform of European Memory and Conscience
- EAN: 9788090876538
- ISBN: 978-80-9087-653-8
- Description: 1× book, paperback, 124 pages, Czech, English
- Dimensions: 21 × 30 cm
- Year of publication: 2023 (1st edition)
- Language: czech, english