Vladimír Peška, guardian of the memory of the Czech exile of the 2nd half of the 20th century
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Vladimír Peška (1920-2002), one of the first refugees fleeing the communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia following the February 1948 coup, reached France after several months spent in refugee camps in Germany. He was naturalized in 1957 and practiced multiple professions but remained, above all, very committed to his homeland through various associations and organisations of the Czechoslovak exile. This article presents the forgotten personality of Peška and proposes the first inventory of the archives deposited after his death at the Institute of Slavic Studies, focusing in particular on the egodocuments.
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