The exhibition The Story of My Father by Czech-Finnish artist Petr Řehor and Finnish photographer Paulina Pasanen will open on 16 January 2025 in the gallery of Kladno Castle by Prague and will be open until 16 March 2025. The exhibition artistically presents the story of Josef Řehoře, who was deployed as forced labour in […]
The Czech-Norwegian Memorabilia project develops bilateral cooperation between the Department of Scandinavian Studies at Charles University and the Institute of Modern History at the University of Trondheim in the field of Norwegian and Czech history in the first half of the 20th century. Thematically, the project focuses mainly on the fate of Czechs forcibly deployed in Norway during World War II.
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Explore the stories of Czechs in forced labour in Norway. Download We would like to thank the descendants of the Noraci and especially Mr. Jar. Šimr, the last Czech survivor of forced labour in Norway, for their warm cooperation.
We have received the sad news that Mr. Jaromír Šimr - the last living surviving survivor of wartime Norway - died at the beginning of November 2024 at the age of 101. It was an honour to have worked with Mr. Šimr. We will not forget his colourful story and the joy in his eyes […]
In August 2020, Anežka M. visited us and brought several war pictures from her grand-grandfather, who was an OT forced laborer in the Alta area during the war. He was there with six other Czechs. He also came to inner Finnmark and met the local population with whom he took pictures. You can see the […]
