Paměť národa

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Paměť národa ("National Memory") is an internet portal, a joint project of the Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů institute (abbreviated ÚSTR, German Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes ) and the Czech broadcaster Český rozhlas and the Post Bellum Association . It is an international collection of testimonies to historical events on October 28, 2008, which is primarily based on the private memories of contemporary witnesses and uses the method of " oral history ". Other supporters included the Ústav pro soudobé dějiny Akademie věd České republiky (Institute for Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ), Vojenský historický ústav Prague (VHÚ, Military History Institute), the Jewish Museum in Prague and others.

The name of the institution is translated into German differently: "Nationales Gedächtnis" or "Gedächtnis der Nation", alternatively for "Gedächtnis" then also "Remembrance", "Commemoration" etc.

The self-imposed task of the project is to make unadulterated testimony of contemporary witnesses available to the public. From these memories, which are undoubtedly subjectively colored, the aim is to create a mosaic of current events that can not only provide valuable individual testimonies for historians, but is also understandable for laypeople. The aim is to document the crimes of the National Socialist occupation of the country ( Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 1939 to 1945) and of the communist dictatorship ( February coup from 1948 to 1989) and to use other historical sources to promote research on this period; The focus is on political prisoners and executed resistance fighters during the Protectorate period and victims of the Holocaust, as well as on political measures against dissidents after 1948, especially during the show trials of the 1950s.

The database of the project, especially that of Post Bellum, already contained over 2500 contemporary witnesses in 2012; some of their spoken memories can be called up with a mobile app. Among the prominent participants who made their memories available was former President Václav Havel . From 2006 on, Czech radio broadcasts "Stories of the 20th Century" on a regular basis, and since 2010 "Paměť národa" awards have been given to particularly important contemporary witnesses.

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  1. ↑ a b Adam Drda, Mikuláš Kroupa: Příběhy 20. století , an episode of the serial of the Czech radio station Český rozhlas, online at: rozhlas.cz/…
  2. ↑ a b What is Memory of Nations / What is “Memory of the People?” , Project description, online at: pametnaroda.cz/… (German version)
  3. ^ Oral history methods. Narrated “People's Memory” - about the method of oral history , online at: pametnaroda.cz/…
  4. ↑ a b "Paměť národa" v chytrém mobilu umožní slyšet historii na místě , report by the TV station Česká televize / ČT24 from May 2, 2012, online at: ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/…
  5. ↑ Havel vzpomíná na všechno, co neodnesl čas , report by the TV station Česká televize / ČT24 from May 27, 2011, online at: ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/…