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Exhibition of Photographs from the Workshop of the Czechoslovak Communist Secret Police Launches U.S. Tour
WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2009 – The Czech institutions centered on the expert disclosure of the totalitarian mechanisms of Central European Communist regimes – the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Security Services Archive – have organized the unique exhibition, “Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police,” and released its companion eponymous English-Czech publication.
Published: 21.08.2009
Opening of the Exhibition “Brno in August 1969”
Prague, August 20, 2009 – Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes Miroslav Lehký, First Deputy Mayor of Brno-Center Zdeněk Pazdírek, Eva Pánková of the Moravian Museum, and Jiří Mikulka of the Security Services Archive opened the exhibition „Brno in August 1969“ today in Brno’s Freedom Square. The exhibition will remain on view in the square until September 17. Miroslav Lehký emphasized the importance of recalling the nation’s past in places in which the public might not be inclined to seek out history.
Published: 21.08.2009
The Security Services Archive Launches its Digital Archive Project
Prague, July 10, 2009 – The Security Services Archive, in cooperation with the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, launched the pilot phase of its Digital Archive Project today. Interested parties are now able to browse digitized archival records in any of the Archive’s research rooms (two in Prague and one in Kanice near Brno). The Digital Archive project is a follow up on the “Open Past” project initiated by the Ministry of the Interior in 2007.
Published: 13.07.2009
The Institute and Archive Have Signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
Kiev, June 9, 2009 - Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Pavel Žáček, Director of the Security Services Archive, Ladislav Bukovszky, and Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, academic Igor Yukhnovsky, signed a cooperation agreement in Kiev on Tuesday, June 9. The institutions committed themselves to cooperate in the areas of scientific research, educational projects, and documentation of political repression from the periods of the Nazi and communist totalitarian regime. They also visited the memorial to victims of the Holodomor in the center of Kiev together. The international trip further included cooperation negotiations with Volodymyr Viatrovych, director of the Regional State Archive, which collects materials from the former NKVD and KGB, and which forms a part of the Security Service of Ukraine.
Published: 12.06.2009
International Working Meeting Inaugurated
PRAGUE, MAY 26, 2009 - The Security Services Archive's international workshop “Experiences of Post-Communist Countries with Former Security Services Archives” was inaugurated this morning at 9:00 a.m. Vice-President of the Czech Senate Jiří Liška, Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes Pavel Žáček, and Director of the Security Services Archive Ladislav Bukovszky delivered the opening remarks. Delegates from partner institutions in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Germany and Slovakia are participating in the workshop...
Published: 26.05.2009
International workshop “Experiences of Post-Communist Countries with Former Security Services Archives”
Prague, May 12, 2009 – The Security Services Archive is organizing the international professional workshop “Experiences of Post-Communist Countries with Former Security Services Archives” on May 26-27, 2009. The two-day working meeting, taking place under the auspices of the Vice-President of the Czech Senate, MVDr. Jiří Liška, will be attended by representatives of partner institutions from Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Germany...
Published: 12.05.2009
Delegation from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) in Prague
PRAGUE, April 22, 2009 – A delegation from the Institute and Archive’s partner organization, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), visited the Security Services Archive today. General Director of IPN Jan Baster, director of the section for disclosing and archiving of documents Zbigniew Nawrocki and his deputy Jacek Kwilosz were primarily interested in the Czech experience with digitization and disclosing of archival documents. During their two-day visit, these Polish colleagues examined all of the Security Services Archive‘s Prague workplaces and familiarized themselves with the process of digitization of archival documents. Director Nawrocki promised cooperation and exchange of experiences in the construction of a Czech digital archive and invited Institute and Archive employees to visit IPN and its archive.
Published: 22.04.2009
The Institute and Archive Directors Have Signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
PRAGUE April 16, 2009 – The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Security Services Archive took a further step today in the expansion of international cooperation. The directors of both institutions signed an agreement on support and cooperation this morning with the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania (Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului in Romania), represented by its president Marius Oprea...
Published: 16.04.2009
Exhibition “Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police”
| Czech Permanent Representative to the European Union Ambassador Milena Vicenová and Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes Director Pavel Žáček cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition “PRAGUE THROUGH THE LENS OF THE SECRET POLICE” and presentation of the eponymous book, comprised of photographs taken in the course of secret police surveillance during the period of the communist totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at 7 p.m. on the premises of the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the European Union, Rue Caroly 15, Brussels. The exhibition and book have been prepared in cooperation with the Security Services Archive. |
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Published: 30.03.2009
Exhibition “On the Cold War Front – Czechoslovakia 1948-1956”
| This exhibition is dedicated to the thousands of unknown fellow citizens who, after February 1948, decided to actively fight from abroad against the Communist power in Czechoslovakia. Dramatic battles of the Cold War took place on the border between East and West in the years 1948-1956. The secret operations of exile intelligence groups have been practically forgotten by now. Today we search for their significance both for the development of our country and for the traditions of the struggle for freedom and democracy (25. 2.–3. 5. 2009 The City of Prague Museum, Na Poříčí 52, Prague 8). |  |
Published: 26.02.2009