Scheduled Events

5. 2. 200815:49

February 5, 2008: Premier To Open Exhibition “People Like Us“

The exhibition “People Like Us“ traces the life stories of people marked by the communist coup in former Czecholsovakia in 1948. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Premier Mirek Topolánek on Tuesday, February 5, 2008. Some time ago, the Czech Premier asked journalists in the civic association Post Bellum, which has been dealing with totalitarian regimes on a long-term basis, to select the life stories of several Czech political prisoners in the 1950s from a unique collection of eyewitness reports and memoirs. Their life stories, supplemented with photographs, will be on display in the premises of Prague’s Straka Academy, the seat of the Czech Government. Preview of the exhibition will be attended by distinguished guests, including the people whose portraits are part of the exhibition.

10:00 a.m. - preview of the exhibition Journalists are requested to arrive at least 15 minutes before the event.
Venue: Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, nábøeží Edvarda Beneše 4, Prague 1


Press Department of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic