Forget or Forgive: A talk by Dr. Ondrej Krajnak

Wed, Sept 16, 2015 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall in NY

ONDREJ KRAJŇÁK is a documentary filmmaker. He received his PhD in journalism from the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. Since 2004, he is the head of the History Department at Nation’s Memory Institute (Ústav Pamäti národa) in Bratislava where he has created an audio visual archive. During the communist era, Dr. Krajňák participated in the underground church movement. He is a member of the Slovak Confederation of Political Prisoners and of the Steering Committee of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.

The evening included a screening of a Slovak documentary film “Ako som mal začiat tretiu svetovu vojnu” (Accused of Planning WW III) by Juraj Brocko. Based on  a true story of a political prisoner Karol Noskovic, one of thousands innocent victims of red terror in the 1950s, the film offers a dramatic testimony of paranoid communist system and portraits an example of brutal, neo-Stalinist persecution in Slovakia.

Dr. Krajňák also awarded a special merit medal to our board member Gabriel Levický for his participation in the political dissent movement during the Communism in Slovakia.

ÚPN udeľuje Gabrielovi Levickému ďakovný list a pamätnú medailu “Za osobnú účasÅ¥ v boji proti komunistickému režimu a svedectvo života pre zachovanie živej pamäte”.
… a dekrét o priznaní postavenia účastníka protikomunistického postoja.
Podľa §11 odst.3 zákona č. 219/2006 Z.z. o protikomunistickom odboji v znení zákona č. 58/2009 Z.z

For Dr. Krajňák’s Power Point presentation in English please click here:
https://www.svu2000.org/newyork/wp-content/Forget-or-Forgive-Krajnak-Sept-2015.ppt

Photos at SVU NY Facebook Page