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Byly jsme tam taky
Author: Dagmar Šimková
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Dagmar Šimková records the experience of a woman deprived of freedom for fourteen years by the communist regime. Byly jsme tam taky portrays prison through her memories and the lives of other women.
The memoir draws on the author's many years of unjust imprisonment. Her personal story meets those of fellow prisoners, including notable figures from Czech cultural and civic life. This women's perspective on communist prisons depicts repression alongside relationships, human dignity, and the importance of preserving lived experience. The people confined together by the regime come to the foreground.
This Czech-language e-book edition has 166 pages.
Dagmar Šimková records the experience of a woman deprived of freedom for fourteen years by the communist regime. Byly jsme tam taky portrays prison through her memories and the lives of other women.
Book information
- Author
- Dagmar Šimková
- Publisher
- Monika Le Fay
- Formát
- E-book
- Language
- Czech
- Genre
- Väzenské pamäti
- ISBN
- 978-80-902-6023-8
- Publication date
- 1. January 2010
- Pages
- 166
What is Byly jsme tam taky about?
The memoir draws on the author's many years of unjust imprisonment. Her personal story meets those of fellow prisoners, including notable figures from Czech cultural and civic life. This women's perspective on communist prisons depicts repression alongside relationships, human dignity, and the importance of preserving lived experience. The people confined together by the regime come to the foreground.
Themes and motifs
Political repression
The memoir records the experience of unjust imprisonment.
Women's testimony
The author describes her own fate and the lives of fellow prisoners.
Memory and dignity
The account preserves the personal perspective and human relationships of the persecuted.
Setting
The prison environment under the communist regime, portrayed through the author's personal experience.
Main characters
Dagmar Šimková
The memoir's author, who endured fourteen years of unjust imprisonment.
Fellow prisoners
Women with different backgrounds whose experiences intersect with the author's story.
Who is this book for?
For readers of memoirs, testimony about communist rule, and women's life stories from the twentieth century.
Book context
A personal prison memoir offering women's testimony about political persecution and communist prisons.
Otázky o knihe
Who wrote Byly jsme tam taky?
Dagmar Šimková.
What experience does it describe?
The author's fourteen years of unjust imprisonment under the communist regime and the lives of women imprisoned with her.
Who is it for?
Readers of memoirs, testimony about political repression, and women's stories from the twentieth century.
What language is this edition in?
This edition is in Czech.
How long is it?
166 pages.
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