Since the summer 2019, the group of scholars from the Charles University and the University of Trondheim have been researching the topic of Czech forced labour in Norway.
Dr. Vendula V. Hingarová from the Charles University in Prague is a spiritus agens of the group. She researches on Czech-Scandinavian relations and mobility of Czechoslovaks to Scandinavia during WWII. She collects ego-documents and is responsible to make the history of the Czech forced workers known to the general public and especially to the relatives and descendants of the workers. She is a creator of this project´s web page. Contact
Dr. Zdenko Maršálek from the Institute of Contemporary History at The Czech Academy of Sciences is an expert on military history in Middle-Europe. He researches the complexity of nationalities of all the forced workers and soldiers in Wehrmacht in Norway.
Prof. Hans Otto Frøland from the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Trondheim is an expert on Norwegian war history. He researches the German building projects in Norway where forced labours and war prisoners from occupied Europe worked.
Dr. Gunnar Hatlehol from the University of Trondheim has made his Ph.D. on the total number of workers forcibly sent to Norway, his work being the largest source in this field.
Gabriela Králová is a student in history and Scandinavian studies at the Charles University. She writes M. A. diploma on Czech forced labour in Norway. She collects sources and assists on the database and webpage administration.
Project website at the Charles University webpage.
2019/ September:
Roundtable Trondheim/Oslo
Program
2019/winter:
Launching project popularization webpage Noraci.cz
2020/February–May:
Semester couse: Czech-nordic war relation, Charles University
2020/March:
Roundtable Praha - CANCELLED DUE PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS
2020/Autumn:
Editon of historical sources related to Czech forced labour in Norway
2020/Autumn:
Semester course: Czech - Scandianvian relations in the 20the century: personalities
2021/spring:
Exhibtion on Czech forced labour in Norway during WWII