Student Resistance Movement

The personality of Josef Šarka (1918-2008) is associated with significant milestones in the struggle against totalitarian regimes in Czechoslovakia: 17 November 1939 and 1989. The present volume brings together two of Šárka's memoirs in which the author recalls the events of 1939, his imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, life in the Protectorate and life in Czechoslovakia during the communist dictatorship and 1989.