Milena Blatná: Underground Letters
In 1952, Milena found herself working in the Jáchymov mines – a place forever remembered as a symbol of suffering. She first worked in the accounting office and later transitioned to technical inspection, where she met prisoners daily.
It was there that she discovered not only love, but also courage. She began smuggling out prisoners’ letters – tiny sparks of hope sent to their families. Each letter was a risk. And one day, she was caught. She expected to end up behind bars herself, but fate took a different turn – Stalin and Gottwald died. How did her story end? Come and experience Milena’s journey.
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Leopold Färber: The Man with the Glass Eye
Leopold’s father was Jewish and his mother Catholic. It was this “mixed marriage” that saved the family from being deported to a concentration camp.
As a boy nicknamed Hurvínek, he carried messages between resistance groups and learned early that evil must never be obeyed. After the war, his spirit of defiance remained. Together with the Mark brothers, he decided to resist yet another regime – this time the communists. They gathered explosives and planned an attack on a police training school.
But everything went terribly wrong. How did Leopold lose his eye? You will find the answers in the interactive exhibition Silent Heroism.