Last Picture from the Gulag
For years Zina has been trying to find out how and where her father died. She found out only recently when the Ukrainian archives opened up to researchers. Russian archives, where there is much more information, remain almost inaccessible.
Zina Žantová (88) never got to know her father. In 1930, when she was eleven months old, he was taken by the secret police and then in a Soviet gulag. Her father Antonín Vodseďálek was a Czech teacher who taught Czech in Soviet Ukraine.
Last Picture from the Gulag
Ľubomír Smatana | Czech Radio | Czech Republic