Life in the Gulag
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: October 23, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00
Presentation of Walter Ciszek’s book S Bohem v Rusku (A Farewell in Russia), the gripping testimony of a Jesuit priest who was arrested in Poland after the outbreak of WWII and imprisoned by the Soviet regime for over 20 years. It was not until 1963 that he was exchanged for a Soviet agent and allowed to travel to the US.
Jan Plovajko, a one-time prisoner of the Russian Gulag, and Russian studies specialist Štěpán Černoušek are set to attend.
Host: Pavel Ryjáček. Musical accompaniment: Marie Fuxová.
The evening is being jointly held by the Václav Havel Library, the Paulínky publishing house, the Gulag.cz association and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.