In the beautiful cloister of the Hejnice Monastery, the Century of Martyrs exhibition will be on display in September and October 2023. Platform of European Memory and Conscience.
The history of the 20th century was tragically marked by the rise of totalitarian ideologies and regimes. Communism, fascism and Nazism brought immeasurable suffering to hundreds of thousands of people and claimed countless victims as a result of wars even in those parts of the world that were not under their direct domination. All these ideologies were born out of hatred and were associated with wanton and often cruelly inhuman violence. The 20th Century Memory Museum and the Platform for European Memory of Conscience have prepared a Czech version of the exhibition on the life stories of twenty-seven Christians who gave their lives for their faith. Among the martyrs are P. Josef Toufar and Bishop Gorazd II.
The original English version of the exhibition was prepared by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience in 2021 and has already been exhibited in Poland, Hungary, Albania and Romania. In the Czech Republic, it was exhibited at the Ambit Gallery in Prague in 2022. A Czech-English catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition. There are also worksheets for project lessons for social science subjects.
Photo gallery: opening of the exhibition Century of Martyrs in Hejnice (1 September 2023)