Jan Plovajko

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. Arrested entering the USSR in October 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Norilsk. In 1943 released into...

Pavel Zoc

Born in Ukraine in 1900. Emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1919. Arrested by the NKVD in May 1945. Sentenced to 10 years in Pechorlag. Returned to Pra...

Sofia Malylju

Born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia. Studied in Prague. Arrested in Lvov in 1948. Passed through the Gulag at Kolyma and Tayshet. Released in 1956.

Antonín Vodseďálek

Imrich Gablech

Born in 1915. Fled to Poland in 1939 as a military aviator. Arrested by Soviet soldiers and sentenced to five years in the Gulag. Released in 1941.

Jiří Bezděk

Left for USSR as Czech teacher in 1927. Arrested in 1930. Deported to Solovetsky Islands and later Siberia. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1936. Per...

Anna Havranová

Born on 7 April 1992 in the village of Sinevirská Poľana in Carpathian Ruthenia. Following the Hungarian occupation in 1939 she decided to escape ...

Yevgenia Varasova

Dvacátá léta dvacátého století, Praha. Černobílá fotografie: uprostřed Jaroslav Heyrovský, vynálezce polarografie. Muž, který se o tři dekády pozdě...

Ivan Kováč - From Prague to the Gulag to Solzhenitsyn

The unknown story of a man abducted by the Soviets from Prague to the Gulag in 1948. There he led a successful revolt and inspired Alexander Solzhe...