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Diskusný večer v Radnici - Nenechali sa zlomiť / Soňa Gyarfašová a Katarína Gáliková
Discussion evening in the Town Hall - They didn't let themselves be broken / Soňa Gyarfašová and Katarína Gáliková
Event by: Radnica Lučenec - Mestské múzeum Lučenec, Krasimir Damjanov
Location: Radnica - Mestské múzeum Lučenec, Doktora Herza 240/1, Lučenec
Discussions and lectures
About event
We invite you to the next in a series of our Discussion evenings with special guests. This time, Soňa Gyarfašová and Katarína Gáliková will visit us to present their joint book entitled Nenechali sa zromít.
It was published by the Ikar publishing house at the end of last year and it is an extraordinary book that should be part of the library of anyone who is interested about the modern history of Central Europe and Slovakia in it.
Through 21 stories of political prisoners of the dark 1950s and people persecuted by the criminal communist regime illuminates for us, and above all for future generations, what those who did not agree with the direction of their homeland after the February communist coup had to undergo and endure. How suffering in dungeons and forced labor marked their lives and the fates of their families, relatives and acquaintances. And how, despite everything they've been through, they didn't let themselves be broken.
The author Soňa Gyarfášová accompanies her respondents to the places of former prisons and labor camps. Their testimonies, recorded in places of pain and death, show evil in its crystal clear form.
A very important part of the book are the portraits of its heroes, the author of which is Lučenčanka Katarína Gáliková. Some of you may remember the exhibition of photographs from the cycle of the same name, which was organized a few years ago by the Lučenec City Museum. Even during a short meeting, Katka has the power to capture and convey the destinies deeply inscribed in the faces of men and women who did not let themselves be broken and resisted. Krasimir Damjanov will accompany us in the evening.
Soňa Gyarfašová
She was born in Bratislava, studied journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University and law at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University, completed study stays in Regensburg, Germany and in Savonlinna, Finland . As a journalist, she deals with balancing two totalities, the themes of freedom and justice. Her heart's theme is the fate of 20th century monuments.
For Slovak Radio, since 2014, he has been preparing the program Osudy, which was written in the 20th century, where he brings the stories of the memorials of two totalitarian regimes, and the program Biele mjesta 20. storočia about our unknown history. In Slovak Television, she prepared the television documentary cycles Fates for the 70th anniversary of the Second World War, Fates - political processes and the onset of totality, Road to deportations, Our century through the eyes of the centenarians and Charter 77 - signatories from Slovakia. She also prepared reports on the victims of totalitarianism for six years in the TV show Reportéri.
For her journalistic work, she received the Open Society Foundation Award (2011, 2019), the Literary Fund Annual Award (2019, 2021, 2022), the National Memory Institute Award (2022) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences Award for Science Popularization (2023). Katarína Gáliková Katarína Acél Gáliková is one of the last graduates of Tibor Huszár's Documentary Photography Studio at the Faculty of Mass Media Communication UCM in Trnava. In his photographic work, he focuses on portrait and reportage photography.
The Slovak public had the opportunity to get to know Katarína's work for the first time thanks to the Da Capo exhibition project...
In the last two years, the people of Lučen have perceived Katka thanks to her employment at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. also as the initiator and guide of the series of lectures Vivat scientia!, thanks to which we can get to know top Slovak scientists and the results of their research.
The author of the photo is Matej Pok.
It was published by the Ikar publishing house at the end of last year and it is an extraordinary book that should be part of the library of anyone who is interested about the modern history of Central Europe and Slovakia in it.
Through 21 stories of political prisoners of the dark 1950s and people persecuted by the criminal communist regime illuminates for us, and above all for future generations, what those who did not agree with the direction of their homeland after the February communist coup had to undergo and endure. How suffering in dungeons and forced labor marked their lives and the fates of their families, relatives and acquaintances. And how, despite everything they've been through, they didn't let themselves be broken.
The author Soňa Gyarfášová accompanies her respondents to the places of former prisons and labor camps. Their testimonies, recorded in places of pain and death, show evil in its crystal clear form.
A very important part of the book are the portraits of its heroes, the author of which is Lučenčanka Katarína Gáliková. Some of you may remember the exhibition of photographs from the cycle of the same name, which was organized a few years ago by the Lučenec City Museum. Even during a short meeting, Katka has the power to capture and convey the destinies deeply inscribed in the faces of men and women who did not let themselves be broken and resisted. Krasimir Damjanov will accompany us in the evening.
Soňa Gyarfašová
She was born in Bratislava, studied journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University and law at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University, completed study stays in Regensburg, Germany and in Savonlinna, Finland . As a journalist, she deals with balancing two totalities, the themes of freedom and justice. Her heart's theme is the fate of 20th century monuments.
For Slovak Radio, since 2014, he has been preparing the program Osudy, which was written in the 20th century, where he brings the stories of the memorials of two totalitarian regimes, and the program Biele mjesta 20. storočia about our unknown history. In Slovak Television, she prepared the television documentary cycles Fates for the 70th anniversary of the Second World War, Fates - political processes and the onset of totality, Road to deportations, Our century through the eyes of the centenarians and Charter 77 - signatories from Slovakia. She also prepared reports on the victims of totalitarianism for six years in the TV show Reportéri.
For her journalistic work, she received the Open Society Foundation Award (2011, 2019), the Literary Fund Annual Award (2019, 2021, 2022), the National Memory Institute Award (2022) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences Award for Science Popularization (2023). Katarína Gáliková Katarína Acél Gáliková is one of the last graduates of Tibor Huszár's Documentary Photography Studio at the Faculty of Mass Media Communication UCM in Trnava. In his photographic work, he focuses on portrait and reportage photography.
The Slovak public had the opportunity to get to know Katarína's work for the first time thanks to the Da Capo exhibition project...
In the last two years, the people of Lučen have perceived Katka thanks to her employment at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. also as the initiator and guide of the series of lectures Vivat scientia!, thanks to which we can get to know top Slovak scientists and the results of their research.
The author of the photo is Matej Pok.