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A project focusing on interviews with representatives of Czechoslovak exile in the USA. It records the life experiences of those who had been forced by circumstances to leave the country of their origin and settles in the US.
Memory Traces – a non-profit association of journalists and historians who, since 2008, have been collecting memories of critics and victims of both the Nazi and communist totalitarian regimes in Central Moravia. Audio-visual recordings of the testimonies of witnesses accompanied by contemporary photos of each individual in his/her home. The respondents include World War II witnesses and victims of 1950s’ communist persecution.
Jiří Doležel – the chairman of the Association and the author of the Memory Traces project, graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian
University of Opava, Department of Photography. His main focus is on documentary, theatre and portrait photography. He holds many awards including several Czech Press Photo Awards. He published books of photographs EPI Center (2007) and Gypsies from Vsetín (2009) and is the author of the book Memory Traces (2016), which contains 17 stories of witnesses of the project of the same name. Jiří is currently studying Cultural Anthropology PhD programme at Palacký University in Olomouc and Film Directing at FAMO in Písek.
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