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Jaroslav Machovský: The Third Resistance – A History of Rebellion

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: May 25, 2017, 19:00 – 21:00

The historians Jan Horník and Jan Dvořák will present an Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes project capturing the recollections of the last surviving participants in the anti-Communist resistance and opposition. Employing oral history methodology and archival sources, often forgotten anti-Communist groups and the activities of individuals have been mapped.

The evening’s guest will be political prisoner Jaroslav Machovský (1932), who in 1952 joined the resistance in Bernarticko. As an alleged group leader he was sentenced to 24 years in June 1954. While in prison he passed through several uranium labour camps in the Jáchymov area. He was released during an amnesty in 1960. His father was convicted as a “village rich man” in 1952 and sentenced to four years; the family’s property was confiscated.

During a commentated projection with interview excerpts a planned digital recordings archive will also be presented.

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