František Bláha, Memory Traces. Torso of Memories

Publication of the unfinished memoirs of František Bláha (9 June 1896–26 March 1979), a long-time municipal doctor in Jihlava, from 1948 director of the Prague State Hospital, now the General University Hospital, deputy of the National Assembly and 1968-1970 chairman of the Czech Central Committee of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters, university lecturer, co-founder and first dean of the Faculty of Hygiene (now the Third Faculty of Medicine). He was a prominent member of the Czechoslovak Sokol community, a participant in the anti-fascist resistance and 1939–1945 prisoner of the Dachau concentration camp, a signatory of the Two Thousand Words and Charter 77. The volume contains authentic testimonies about his youth in Písek, about the years of the First World War and grammar school and university studies, about the interwar period and his own medical practice. Among other things, it presents a unique testimony of a doctor who treated the minister Alois Rašín as he was dying as a result of an assassination. The memoirs record facts and impressions of the political and social life of the First Republic and culminate in a chapter on the Munich crisis.

The publication can be purchased on the website https://www.nacr.cz/vyzkum-publikace-akce/publikace/detail-publikace/frantisek-blaha-stopami-pameti-torzo-vzpominek.