Visiting the Knowledge Trail around the former uranium mines and slave labor camps in Jachymov, north-west Bohemia. In the spring of 2015 the trail was not reconstructed. The information panels were updated and re-installed two months later and what we saw was the old trail designed in 1996. Together with volunteers, visitors and chair of Politicti vezni.cz / Political Prisoners.eu Mr. Tomas Bouska paid tribute to the former prisoners who were forced to work here during the Czechoslovak Stalinism from 1949 - 1961. After this period uranium mining ended in the Jachymov district. However, Jachymov history is much richer. It starts in 16th century with silver mining and the production of the famous "tolar" coins.
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Video by Filip Vonka and Iveta Škrabalová, 2015.