The 4th Evening of Ostrava Arrivals27 May at 6 pm at the Old Arena on Masaryk Square
Theme: Political arrivals
Guests: Leo Žídek, the chairman of the Ostrava Confederation of Political Prisoners, whose first encounter with Ostrava was through the barred windows of the remand prison, and Lumír Čermák, who arrived in Ostrava in 1939 when his native Orlová was occupied by Polish forces. And Dorotka Palkovská remembered her father, who after the October Revolution in 1917 fled Ukraine from the Bolsheviks, who had murdered his entire family. The musical guest was virtuoso jazz pianist Vlastimil Šmída.
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