With the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes on History, Memory and Freedom: Children and grandchildren. Totalitarianism and trans-generat

European and Czech history of the 20th century is framed by the suffering of two world wars and the horrors of totalitarian regimes, especially communism and national socialism, which were characterised by genocidal features (the Gulag, the holocaust). In Czechoslovakia, too, hundreds of thousands of people fell victim to these monstrous ideologies between 1938 and 1989, and their descendants carry with them various traumas that, with few exceptions, are not reflected on, explored or healed in the Czech context. Therefore, as part of a series of debates called CIRCUS ÚSTR, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR is its Czech acronym) is raising the issue of trans-generational trauma in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library.