The Slovak Historical Society already owns half of the birthplace of Jozef Tis. In the premises available to the organization, it operates something like a museum of the President of the People’s Slovak State. However, the memorial room is not accessible to the general public – for example, journalists are not welcome in the exhibition.
We live in a society that also carries with it the burden of the mistakes of the past. For the future, the key is to name mistakes and strongly condemn them. Not to offer the opportunity to propagate totalitarian ideologies and create memorial sites for criminals like Jozef Tiso.
In Post Bellum we have a direct opportunity to record the fates of people who survived the war. These are the testimonies of real people. Those who survived the Holocaust lost all their possessions during Aryanization or were part of the resistance, for which they were punished. The war affected everyone – seniors, young people, children.
We call on the deputies of the city of Bytča to withdraw the item in question from the agenda of the city council or to vote against the sale of part of the house to the Slovak Historical Society.
On the contrary, we ask that it be a priority for the city to buy back part of the house from the Slovak Historical Society, so that the space of the building cannot be misused in the future to deny history.
We must never allow the adoration of a regime that sent tens of thousands of citizens to their deaths, banned democratic political competition, restricted free media and civil society, and dragged us into a war of aggression alongside Nazi Germany.
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