2010 IOHA PRAGUE

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Volunteer initiative Political Prisoners.eu participated actively at the Sixteenth International Oral History Conference, "Between Past and Future: Oral History, Memory and Meaning" that will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from 7 to 11 July 2010.

Members of our initiative introduced their research experiences on Saturday, 10 July at 11:00 during the Session on "Memories of violence, war and totalitarianism. The persecuted, civil rights, trauma and forgetting."

Our members presented this papers:

Klára Pinerová – Woman and her identity in the prison subculture in the 1950s Introduction

Kristýna Bušková – Women in communist prisons in the 1950s in Czechoslovakia: Understanding psychological effects of political imprisonment and ways of coping using oral history

Michal Louč – Czechoslovak political prisoners: Return to Society