On March 10, 2022, the ceremonial opening of the exhibition Sent to the North took place in the Jiří Mahens […]
On March 10, 2022, the ceremonial opening of the exhibition Sent to the North took place in the Jiří Mahens […]
On the occasion of the exhibition Czech Forced Labourers in Norway in the Jiří Mahens Central Library, we are looking […]
The exhibition Sent to the North in the Jiří Máhen Library in Brno has been on view since March 3. […]
We warmly invite you to a lecture on Thursday, February 24, 2022, at 6 pm, with a discussion of forced Czechs from […]
Jan Kreysa from Horní Kamenice in the Plzeň region reacted promptly on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition […]
With these life stories, we also publish period materials such as photographs, official documents and samples from diaries or letters, […]
On the occasion of Sámi National Day, we publish war images from the Sámi regions in northern Norway. From several […]
On January 25, 2022, the Norwegian Ambassador, Robert Kvile, and his wife, Erna A. Størkson, visited the Kodým family. The […]
We bring you an overview of media reports about the Noráci project, to which the main and local media such […]
We introduce you ten biographical stories of the Czech forced labourers. We thank the families for helping to put the […]
On the occasion of the exhibition in Pilsen, we are looking together with the Scientific and Study Library for the […]
Until the end of this week, you have the opportunity to see the exhibition in Prague at the Faculty of […]
We publish an electronic form of the exhibition Sent to the North: 15 portraits. It consists of a set of 15 […]
The whole of November is an exhibition on display at the Regional Museum in Teplice. There are 12 information panels […]
We cordially invite you to an exhibition at the National Library in Klementinum. The panel - traveling exhibition can be […]
František Vaněk (1914) worked in Kardašova Řečice in South Bohemia as a carpenter. He got a job to work in Nazi Germany […]
In mid-October 2021, we received photos from Karel Pekař's grandnephew. The great-uncle was childless, and his extensive family left a photograph […]
Jaroslav Ševčík's grandson contacted us in the summer of 2021 and offered us his grandfather's photo album for research. Jaroslav […]
At the end of September 2021 we were visited by the grandson of Mr. František Hejda from South Bohemia. His […]
We bring you a summary of media reports and articles that refers to Noráci. This part follows the contribution No. 1 […]
We bring you other medallions deployed in Norway, which were created in the summer months with the help of families […]
Since mid-September, the Czech team has been on a business trip in Trondheim, Norway. Together with their Norwegian colleagues, they set […]
The exhibition Posláni na Sever was opened more than twice, at the residence of the Norwegian Ambassador for the Descendants […]
In July 2021, we visited the family of Mr. Valtr Turek, deployed in Trondheim, on the occasion of taking portraits […]
During the summer holidays we are preparing a book about "Noráci" called Sent to the North. Czechs for forced labor in […]
On June 23, 2021, Mr. and Mrs. Weil visited us at the Faculty of Arts. Mrs. Věra is the daughter […]
The French and Czech broadcasts of czech radio "Český rozhlas", short articles and more comprehensive studies present the results of […]
On June 16, 2021, Mr. Josef Hofman's grandson (born 1921) brought war letters and notes from Norway, which lay in […]
During May 2021, we sent another 80 letters to the then military and later addresses. We heard over 15 offspring. […]
During research in the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague, we found a list of Czechs working in […]
The last visit from the 10-day journey for the descendants of the deployed led to Eastern Bohemia. The son of […]
Josef Knap's son preserves, in Vrdy near Čáslav, a unique legacy from his father's stay in the northernmost part of Norway. […]
The Benc brothers in Postřelmov in the Šumperk region keep a wonderful photo album with pictures from Narvik and Engeløya, period […]
On May 11, we visited the daughter of Mr. František Šak in Rýmařov. At home, he preserves a rich photographic legacy […]
In Určice in the Prostějov region, Mr. Lošťák's family showed us pictures and official materials from the deployment in Norway. […]
On the anniversary of the end of the war, on 8 May 2021, we met in Velké Meziříčí a witness to […]
Mr. Rostislav Holub did not tell his family much about Norway. His daughter, Mrs. Milada S., from Pivín in the […]
On May 6, 2021, we began a 10-day trip to 10 families of witnesses who responded to our call for materials […]
Today, 17th May, Norway is celebrating the National Day. We bring you photographs from the first post-war celebration of 17th […]
On 22 May 2021 at 20.05, ČRo Plus broadcasts the premiere of a program about Czechs in Norway during the Second […]
During April 2021, we mailed about 180 letters to the descendants deployed. We ask them if we could look into […]
Mr. Oldřich Svoboda was born on April 19, 1921 in Třebíč. We were recently contacted by his now grandson from […]
The answer is yes. However, only those who survived the compensation paid after 1999. Applicants for compensation had to […]
The database of forced labourers in Norway is intended as a living database which, in addition to the basic data and […]
In March 2021 - the last day before the lockdown - Mrs. Švecová in Havlíčkův Brod handed over to our […]
Forced Czech workers who managed to escape to Sweden found help in the country, both from the Swedish authorities and […]
Hard work, harsh climatic conditions, poor security and a reluctance to serve the Germans have led many to be forced to […]
After long negotiations with the National Archives in Oslo, we bring the opportunity for families and other interested parties to […]
At the end of February 2021, Dr. V. Hingarová visitied grandchildren of Mr. Holub, Eva and Václav, in the village […]
On 15.2. 2021, the family from Prague-Stodůlky provided us with photographs of Mr. Jan Herian, who was deployed to Norway. He […]
At the end of January, the son of Mr. Zdeněk Opl visited us at the Faculty of Arts in Prague. […]
Czech Radio Plus (Český rozhlas) is preparing a program about the forced labor of Czechoslovaks in Norway. The almost hour-long program […]
On 2.2. in 2021 we were visited by a Prague collector who has in his collection a photographic legacy of František K., who […]
Emil Tůma from Nová Paka returned from forced labor in Narvik with a new suitcase. The original one fell apart, so […]
At the turn of 1942 and 1943, over 1,300 deployed Czechs passed through Trondheim in central Norway. Part of it […]
After the end of the war in Norway, Czechoslovaks were concentrated in concentration camps for so-called displaced persons. They waited […]
In Norway, there is a good part of documentation about the so called Czech Noráci. The vast majority of the papers […]
In October 2015, Gunnar D. Hatlehol defended his doctoral dissertation "Norwegeneinsatz 1940-1945. Organization Todt's workers in Norway and the degrees […]
The topic of forced deployment of Czech workers in Norway was elaborated by student Gabriela Králová in her bachelor's thesis, […]
At the end of September, we received several photos from Jan Novotný's relatives. It is a memorial album, which this forced […]
In August 2020, Anežka M. visited us and brought several war pictures from her grand-grandfather, who was an OT forced […]
The National Archives of Norway in Oslo recently made archival documents from World War II available. A central file of forced […]
Petr Řehoř is a painter and has lived in Finland since 1975. He is preparing an art project that themes the […]
Our project based on Czech-Norwegian war relations was presented on March 6, 2020 at a scientific conference in Munich as part […]
In September 2019, the researchers met with Mr. Švec from Havlíčkův Brod, who organized joint meetings of these ex-forced labourers […]
A series of lectures on relations between the Czech Republic and Scandinavia during World War II begins 4.3. at Charles University […]
A professional colloquium on the topic of forced labor in Scandinavia was planned on 3 April 2020 at the Faculty […]
The March issue of the Czech historical journal "Dějiny a současnost" has just been published. Our team participated in the preparation […]
The daughter of Josef Lébl from Prague-West keeps her father's suitcase from the war in the attic of the family […]
V rámci kurzu o Česko-skandinávských vztazích studenti UK pátrají po osudech nasazených v Norsku. Simona Kloučková hledá informace o mužích s příjmením Svoboda, Václav Křenek […]
Petr Řehoř is a painter and has lived in Finland since 1975. He is preparing an art project that themes the […]
In October 2019 we launched the test website NORACI.CZ. The site is planned to be fully operational at the turn […]
