An exhibition about women in the Gulag is coming to Olomouc
February 18, 2025 | Exhibitions | Exhibition Threads of Memories – The Destinies of Women in the Gulag
Arrests, executions, imprisonments, Gulag camps, deportations of entire nations - all these have affected millions of people in the past. Political repression in the Soviet Union was massive. The state punished not only for crimes, but also for belonging to a certain category of the population, such as social, religious, ethnic or national, including the Czech one. In each of these groups, of course, there were women.
The third stop of the exhibition Threads of Memories - The Fate of Women in the Gulag will take place on 5 March 2025 in Olomouc at the Art Centre of Palacký University (Univerzitní 3, 3rd floor). It will include a guided tour by Boris Belenkin, the library director of Memorial from Russia, who is currently living in exile in the Czech Republic. The exhibition will be on display until 15 April, from Monday to Friday, 8:00-20:00.
On 26 March at 18:00, a screening of the film Step a mráz - In the Footsteps of the Lagers in Kazakhstan with a debate with Štěpán Černoušek, chairman of the Gulag.cz organisation, will take place at the Faculty of Arts of UP (Křížkovského 10, room 3.05).
On 9 April at 17:30 there will be a guided tour of the exhibition, led by Irina Ostrovska, archivist of the Memorial Association from Russia, also currently residing in the Czech Republic.
The authors of the exhibition are Memorial and Gulag.cz. Its realization in Olomouc takes place in cooperation with the Department of Slavonic Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc.
Admission is free. The texts of the panels are in both Czech and English versions.
