Returning the names 2021

October 30, 2021 | Returning the Names

Every year on 29 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, we celebrate the memory of those who died as a result of the soviet state terror. Among the millions of these victims, there are also thousands of Czechs or citizens of Czechoslovakia.

Documentary series "The Czechs and the Great Terror"

October 29, 2021

Executions, deportations to Siberia, physical abuse, slave labor in GULAG camps - this was the Soviet reality under Joseph St...

Online exhibition „Repressed art. Artists in the KGB/StB documents“

September 29, 2021

We are pleased to present an online exhibition „Repressed art. Artists in the KGB/S...

We mapped the remains of the Nazi camps in Karviná

June 14, 2021 | Expeditions

One newly localized camp for Soviet POWs and a thorough mapping of the remains of other WWII Nazi camps – that’s the result o...

An expedition to the Marble Gorge – a new documentary by Gulag.cz

May 26, 2021 | Expeditions

In August 2016, a two-member team of Gulag.cz archaeologists explored ...

Exhibition and conference on the centenary of the birth of Andrei Sakharov

May 11, 2021

Czech branch of Memorial and Gulag.cz together with Russian and Czech partners will host two commemorative events dedicated t...

‘Archaeology of Gulag’, or A brief story about our expeditions

February 11, 2021 | Expeditions

Why do we organize expeditions to abandoned Gulag camps? What do these trips bring? What specific conclusions can they help u...

New 3D gallery of objects from the Gulag

January 24, 2021 | 3D gallery of objects from the Gulag

Objects of Gulag prisoners' daily life – shoes, hats, serving bowls, spoons, a bread pan, a hand-made colander, and many more...

Returning the names 2020

October 29, 2020 | Returning the Names

Every year on 29 October, on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, we celebrate the memo...

We support imprisoned historian Y. Dmitriev

October 01, 2020

A joint statement by Post Bellum (a project of the Memory of Nation), Gulag.cz, Czech branch of Memorial and Političtí vězni....

Witnesses of Soviet deportations in the Baltic states

June 13, 2020 | Gulag Online

We have launched a new project on the Gulag Online website remembering the ...

We will create an educational aid in virtual reality

April 09, 2020 | Gulag in virtual and augmented reality

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic has supported our joint project with the University of South Bohemia’s Institute ...

We presented our film and projects in Moscow

March 08, 2020

After a few years we presented our projects to Russian audience again. On Tuesday, March 3, we were guests at the Gulag State...

Russia's Soviet Legacy: Discussion with Memorial Society

February 14, 2020

Memorial in Moscow, in the latest series of court proceedings, was fined over five million rubles for alleged failure to incl...

Gulag in virtual and augmented reality

January 08, 2020 | Gulag in virtual and augmented reality

Dear friends, we would like to show you the first results of our experimenting with virtual and augmented reality which we ha...

Returning the Names 2019

November 10, 2019 | Returning the Names

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, we joined for the third time the event of the Russian Memorial Association "Returning the Names...

A Journey to the Gulag - film premiere and VR experience

October 10, 2019 | Gulag in virtual and augmented reality

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 was the premiere of the documentary film "A Journey to the Gulag" about our ...

Research repression, experience repression: The case of Yury Dmitriev

November 26, 2018

On Monday 26. November in Prague took a place a discussion on the criminalization of Russian historians and attempts to rewri...

Returning the names: we commemorated 80 Czechs executed in USSR

November 01, 2018 | Returning the Names

On Monday, October 29, we joined for the second time an event of the Russian Memorial society "Returning the names". At the M...

We launched a new search engine about Soviet repressions

October 11, 2018 | Memsearch.org: A new search engine about Soviet repressions

At http://www.memsearch.org/en/, a new search engine has been launched to facilita...

Last address: two more tables to the executed victims of the communist regime

May 10, 2018 | Last Address

Two new commemorative tables now commemorate the victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

Returning the names 2017 - remembrance of the Czechs executed in the USSR

October 01, 2017 | Returning the Names

On Sunday, October 29, on the eve of the Russian Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repression, we commemorated the names ...

On Tuesday, June 27, we will launch the Czech version of the Last Address project

June 23, 2017 | Last Address

“One name, one life, one table.” This is the motto of the project Last A...

Travel around the uranium mine at Marble Gorge

May 17, 2017

We have mapped another part of the Marble Gorge camp in the form of a panoramic tour of the adjacent uranium mine. The tour w...

Gulag.cz joins international Sites of Conscience coalition

May 13, 2017

In May our organisation Gulag.cz was accepted into the Sites of Conscience international coalition of museums and memorials o...

Professor Mečislav Borák, author of research on repression against the Czechs in the USSR, died

March 18, 2017

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at the age of 72, Professor Mečislav Borák, the largest Czech expert on the topic of repression ...

Map of Gulag camps and stories from Central Europe

January 11, 2017 | Central European Map of the Gulag

Within the Gula...

We presented the Central European Map of Gulag within the Visegrad countries

December 19, 2016 | Central European Map of the Gulag

At the end of the year, we presented the results of the Central Euro...

We documented Gulags where uranium was mined for the first Soviet atomic bombs

September 05, 2016

In August 2016, we made another expedition to abandoned Gulag camps in Siberia. This time, we headed to the Kodar Mountains i...

Gulag Online virtual museum opens its gates

June 10, 2016 | Gulag Online

Today saw the ceremonial launch of the Gulag Online virtual museum. The virtual museum is the result of a year’s work by memb...

Invitation to the Grand Opening of the Virtual Museum Gulag Online

June 01, 2016 | Gulag Online

We invite you to the grand opening of the virtual museum Gulag Online. The presentation will take place on Thursday, June 9, ...

Gulag Online Museum launches on June 9!

April 29, 2016 | Gulag Online

The Gulag Online Museum is scheduled to be open and open on Thursday, June 9, 2016. If you want to attend the opening ceremon...

Statement on the Moscow attack on participants in the school competition "Man in History"

April 29, 2016

We would like to express our support to our colleagues from the Russian Memorial organization, who were attacked yesterday by...

Semyon Vilensky, a tireless popularizer and publisher of Gulag literature, died

April 25, 2016

V sobotu 23. dubna v Moskvě zemřel spisovatel a básník Semjon Vilenskij, předseda ...

Стартовл проект Среднеевропейская карта ГУЛАГа

April 18, 2016 | Central European Map of the Gulag

We have launched the "Central European Map of the Gulag" project by the joint workshop with our partners from Poland, Slovaki...

We are linking databases of Soviet repression with Memorial Society

March 08, 2016 | Memsearch.org: A new search engine about Soviet repressions

Creating a unified database of Soviet repressions - this was the theme of a three-day workshop that we organized in Prague in...

The Last address - Russian project has attracted a lot of interest, we plan to expand to the Czech Republic

October 26, 2015 | Last Address

The Czech presentation of the Russian project The Last Address, which commemorates the victims of Soviet repression, met with...

We contributed to Dutch exhibition about the Gulag

June 25, 2015

In the Dutch memorial Vught, which is built from a former Nazi concentration camp, was opened on 25 June large exhibition on ...

Stop liquidation of an authentic museum Perm-36. An open letter from Czech institutions to the governor of Perm region Viktor Basargin

August 10, 2014

We sent an open letter to the governor of Perm region Viktor Basargin. The letter was joined by other Czech institutions - th...