{"id":2380,"date":"2015-09-21T00:33:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:09:53","slug":"forget-or-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/2015\/forget-or-forgive\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget or Forgive: A talk by Dr. Ondrej Krajnak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wed, Sept 16, 2015 at 6:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\nBohemian National Hall in NY<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-content\/Krajnak-SVU-sign-e1443216371801.jpg\" alt=\"Krajnak\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONDREJ KRAJNAK <\/strong>is a documentary filmmaker. He received his PhD in journalism from the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. Since 2004, he is the head of the <strong>History Department at National Memory Institute (Ustav Pameti n\u00e1roda) in Bratislava <\/strong>where he has created an audio-visual archive. During the communist era, Dr. Krajnak participated in the underground church movement. He is a member of the Slovak Confederation of Political Prisoners and of the Steering Committee of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>The evening included a screening of a Slovak <strong>documentary film &#8220;Ako som mal zaciat tretiu svetovu vojnu&#8221; <\/strong>(Accused of Planning WW III) by Juraj Brocko. Based on \u00c2\u00a0a true story of a political prisoner Karol Noskovic, one of thousands innocent victims of red terror in the 1950s, the film offers a\u00a0dramatic testimony of paranoid communist system and\u00a0portraits an example of brutal, neo-Stalinist persecution in Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Krajnak also awarded a special merit medal to our board member <strong>Gabriel Levicky<\/strong>for his participation in the political dissent movement during the Communism in Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p><em>UPN udeluje Gabrielovi Levickemu dekovny list a pametni medaili &#8220;Za osobne zasluhy v boji proti komunistick\u00e9mu rezimu a svedectvo zivota pre zachovan\u00ed zivej pam?ti&#8221;.<br \/>\n &#8230; a dekret o priznani\u00ad postavenia ucastnika protikomunistickeho postoja.<br \/>\nPodla \u00c2\u00a711 odst.3 z\u00e1kona \u00c4\u008d. 219\/2006 Z.z. o protikomunistickom odboji v zn?n\u00ed\u00ad z\u00e1kona \u00c4\u008d. 58\/2009 Z.z<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.930687553667628.1073741862.123117284424663&amp;type=3\">Photos at SVU NY Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-content\/Krajnak-Flyer-draft-9a-e1442792619155.jpg\" alt=\"OK flyer\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wed, Sept 16, 2015 at 6:30pm Bohemian National Hall in NY ONDREJ KRAJNAK is a documentary filmmaker. He received his PhD in journalism from the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. Since 2004, he is the head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/2015\/forget-or-forgive\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}