We still held the hope that the regime would collapse. Months were passing by without any prospect for a change
Václav Růžička was born in Kácov, his father was an entrepreneur. He was arrested in February 1950, during his studies at the high school, just before the graduation exam, and sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in camps at the Jáchymov area. He finally served ‘only' seven years of his sentence and was released in 1958. He spent the majority of his sentence in the central camp and in Nikolaj. After the release he worked in several positions in the construction industry. In 1968, he was dismissed from the position of a foreman and he found a maintenance job at the Konopiště castle. He belongs to the organizers of informal meetings of former political prisoners and people connected with the group escape from Horní Slavkov (including Karel Kukal). Meetings are held annually each July in Český Šternberk, the meeting in 2006 was the thirteenth. Václav Růžička also worked at the Český Šternberk castle, where he met with the earl of Šternberk, who holds the patronag ...
Prisoners’ Bus
he was born on 23. 8. 2013 in Prague
in 1987 he participated in his first demonstration
16. 4. 1988 was at the formation of Independent Peace Association (NMS)
10. 12. ...
Born on 12 July, 1920, in Brno
Job at a textile factory of the Baťa Company
1941-1944 - government troops, 12th Battalion, 1st Company of cyclists
1944 – went to Italy ...
1921 – born in Běrunice near Poděbrady
between 1935–1938 as an apprentice in a butcher’s shop
1942 – received an order to do conscripted labour in the German Reich ...
| Number of witnesses in database | 3062 |
| Number of published witnesses | 1669 |
| Number of registered researchers | 3453 |
| Number of photos | 14998 |
| Number of clips | 9737 |
12/05/2013, Mikulas Kroupa
Ve věku 95 let zemřel tuto sobotu večer brigádní generál Zdeněk Škarvada, jeden z posledních žijících západních válečných letců. Čest jeho památce.
09/05/2013
Po úspěchu s cenou SozialMarie přicházíme s další prosbou o podporu v on-line hlasování. Firma Newslab, která s námi spolupracovala na programování pro operační systém Android, přihlásila aplikaci Paměť národa pro chytré telefony do soutěže Aplikace roku 2013.
06/05/2013, Eva Kubátová
Osvobození západních Čech americkou armádou v roce 1945 - takto se jmenuje nový dokumentační projekt na portálu Paměť národa. Díky podpoře americké ambasády se snažíme zachytit mizející svědectví pamětníků událostí konce Druhé světové války v západních a jižních Čechách.