‘Jáchymov’s Hell’: Trekking in the Memoryscape of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Forced Labour Camps

Barbora Holá, T. Bouwknegt
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This article treks through the timeworn remnants of Czechoslovakia’s Communist forced and correctional labour uranium camps in the Ore Mountains in the northwest Bohemian region of Jáchymov. These camps held tens of thousands of detainees, largely political prisoners convicted in sham trials or individuals sent there for re-education. Conditions were deplorable. Throughout the 1950s, the young Czechoslovak Communist regime compelled detainees to hard, life threatening labour and subjected them to maltreatment and arbitrary violence. This article traces some of the visible, invisible or overgrown artefacts of the former camps, as well as public as private memories about what happened there. It reflects on the current memoryscape of these forgotten places of human suffering and describes the aesthetics of these aging sites of atrocity.
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“Jáchymov的地狱”:在捷克斯洛伐克共产主义强迫劳改营的记忆中跋涉
本文在捷克斯洛伐克西北部波希米亚地区Jáchymov的Ore山,穿越了捷克斯洛伐克共产党强迫劳动和矫正劳动铀营的古老遗迹。这些集中营关押了数万名被拘留者,其中大部分是在虚假审判中被定罪的政治犯,或者是被送到那里接受再教育的人。条件十分恶劣。在整个1950年代,年轻的捷克斯洛伐克共产主义政权强迫被拘留者从事有生命危险的艰苦劳动,并使他们受到虐待和任意暴力。本文追溯了一些可见的、不可见的或杂草丛生的旧营地文物,以及关于那里发生的事情的公共和私人记忆。它反映了这些被遗忘的人类苦难之地的当前记忆,并描述了这些老化的暴行场所的美学。
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