More than thirty years after the fall of the communist regime, mass grave sites still exist in the Czech Republic where the remains of victims and opponents of totalitarian regimes of the 20th century are secretly buried. One of the most famous is the burial site in Ďáblice. The aim of the seminar is to open a discussion about the form of these important places of memory and how to commemorate them with dignity. The seminar is held within the framework of the ÚSTR research project Secret burial sites of opponents and victims of the Nazi and Communist regimes in Ďáblice - history, memory and present. It is also a continuation of the project Names of the Dead. The organisers are the Museum of Memory of the 20th Century, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the Association of Former Political Prisoners and the Documentation and History Cabinet of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic.
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Date: 23 June 2022 from 13:00 to 18:00
Place: the Great Hall of the City of Prague, New Town Hall, Mariánské nám. 2, Prague 1
Program:
1:00 p.m. Opening remarks
JUDr. Hana Kordová Marvanová (Chair of the Board of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century and Prague City Councillor) / PhDr. Jan Kalous, Ph.D. (Director of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century) / PhDr. Ladislav Kudrna, Ph.D. (Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes)
1:15 p.m. Screening of the film Bodies Not to Give Away (directed by Martin Vadas, CT, 2011, 26 min.)
will present: Martin Vadas
2:05 p.m. Discussion panel 1: History of the secret burial site of opponents and victims of the Nazi and Communist regimes in Ďáblice and other places
panelists: PhDr. Alena Šimánková (National Archives), PhDr. Aleš Kýr (Cabinet of Documentation and History of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic), Ing. Jiří Línek (Association of Former Political Prisoners of the Czech Republic), Mgr. Petra Vinařová (Department of Health of the City of Prague)
moderator.
4:05 p.m.
Discussion panel 2: Possibilities of exhumation of the remains of the opponents and victims of the Nazi and Communist regime in Ďáblice
Panellists.
The event is implemented with the financial support of the Capital City of Prague. Prague.
The seminar is held under the auspices of the Prague City Council. JUDr. Hana Kordova Marvanova.
Seminar programme (pdf.)
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