The third issue of the yearbook of the Museum of Memory of the 20th Century brings a number of studies, articles and interviews. It contains, among other things, texts about the collection objects, some of which will be part of the permanent exhibition that the museum is preparing for the House of the Passion at Hradčany, its future headquarters. The yearbook presents the process of its ongoing reconstruction, including visualizations prepared by the IXA studio under the direction of doc. Tomáš Hradečný. We look back at the summer school for high school students or the 4th edition of the Unbreakable and Sacrificed festival, whose main theme was film images of the anti-communist resistance in Central and Eastern Europe. In connection with the upcoming exhibition on Pavel Tigrid, an interview with Petr Pithart was conducted. In the introductory section, a study of the division of Cyprus in 1974 and the role of American diplomacy in this conflict is printed. The authors also discuss the Czechoslovak footprint in these events. The yearbook also includes an excerpt from a forthcoming book on the relationship between Zbyněk Fišer (known by his artistic pseudonym Egon Bondy) and the State Security. The well-known poet, writer and philosopher worked intermittently for many years as a secret collaborator of the secret police, for whom he performed various tasks. The personal story of Maria and Vlasta Štěrbová recalls one of the criminal operations of the communist State Security, codenamed "Stone". Its victims were citizens who after February 1948 decided to leave their homeland for exile.
The main distributor of the XX. magazine is Kosmas.cz.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA OF THE PUBLICATION
Title: XX.: Revue of the Museum of Memory of the 20th Century
Volume: III/2023
Authors: Veronika Bendová, Petr Blažek, Vít Fojtek, Jan Kalous, Karol Madaj, Lucie Moravcová Pazderková, Peter Rendek, Jan Samohýl, Teresa Urbář, Miroslav Vodrážka, Kryštof Zeman
Publisher: Museum of Memory XX.
Veronika Bendová, Petr Blažek, Jan Kalous, Radek Schovánek, David Svoboda (editor-in-chief), Kryštof Zeman
ISBN 978-80-908765-8-3
ISSN: 3029-5440
Description: paperback, 128 pages, Czech
Dimensions: 21 × 29,7 cm