A small reminder
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vera_j70 years ago, 15th March 1939, the then Czechoslovakia ceased existing . Occupied by Nazists, it became a so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.This was a result of previous loss of the borderline to our neighbouring fasist countries after the Munchen Dictate in 1938. There was no war in our country but we lost our freedom (again - see Czech history). There were brave people who fought the occupants at the cost of their lives and lives ouf theid families. There were Lidice and Ležáky and Javoříčko and many other places of tragedy. This times shouldn´t be forgotten but I can see indifference and lack of knowledge around and I am ashamed. This is my country, it is not perfect but we live here and her history is like an open book.
You know, my grandfather was an old- fashioned social-democrat. This Party was a close equivalent of British Unions. My grandpa was a worker at the Railways and joined a small group of anti-Nazi movement, nothing big of heroic, just spreading some documments or doing some small sabotages. The group had been betrayed from inside, all members imprisoned. My Grandpa was in Terezín some time and then he was taken to a concentration camp in Flossenburg, it Germany. He had never returned, died in 1944, and his body is somewhere there forever.
The traitor was the first one who was executed after the end of the occupation - he sent to death more than 60 innocent people.
Fortunately my family was not punished any more. My parents told me some horrible stories from the end of the war in 1945 then.
I just felt like writing about it - Czechoslovakia was the first victim and then Poland - and then the war began. But the background of all this is enourmously complex and interesting.
You know, my grandfather was an old- fashioned social-democrat. This Party was a close equivalent of British Unions. My grandpa was a worker at the Railways and joined a small group of anti-Nazi movement, nothing big of heroic, just spreading some documments or doing some small sabotages. The group had been betrayed from inside, all members imprisoned. My Grandpa was in Terezín some time and then he was taken to a concentration camp in Flossenburg, it Germany. He had never returned, died in 1944, and his body is somewhere there forever.
The traitor was the first one who was executed after the end of the occupation - he sent to death more than 60 innocent people.
Fortunately my family was not punished any more. My parents told me some horrible stories from the end of the war in 1945 then.
I just felt like writing about it - Czechoslovakia was the first victim and then Poland - and then the war began. But the background of all this is enourmously complex and interesting.
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on 2009-03-15 09:10 pm (UTC)ONLY REMEMBERED
Up and away like the dew of the morning,
Soaring from earth to its heavenly home,
Thus would I leave from this world and its toiling:
Only remembered for what I have done.
cho: Only remembered, Only remembered,
Only remembered for what we have done;
Only remembered, Only remembered,
Only remembered for what we have done.
Shall we be missed when others succeed us,
Reaping the fields we in spring time have sown?
Nay, for the sower shall pass from his labour,
Only remembered for what he has done.
Only the truth that in life we have spoken,
Only the seeds that on Earth we have sown,
These shall pass onward while we are forgotten,
Only remembered for what we have done.
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on 2009-03-15 09:29 pm (UTC)