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\n<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nScreening, Lecture, Discussion<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nUnder the beeches, you will find a safe refuge, wishes carved into the bark will come true.<\/em> There are places where something went terribly wrong. The war ended, roles reversed. Those who had been at the bottom quickly gained the upper hand. Pleas for life went unheard, revenge outweighed everything else. Any sense of understanding for the suffering of others seemed to vanish.<\/div>\nIn the video On the Peaks of All the Beech Mountains, created during a residency at the etc. gallery, Kl\u00e1ra Trskov\u00e1 returns to the place known as \u201cBukov\u00e9 hory\u201d in the Broumov region. At the end of the Second World War, women, children, and the elderly were murdered or beaten to death here \u2014 solely because they belonged to the German-speaking population or because their killers had old scores to settle. After the executions, their property could be claimed. They were buried in three graves in the forest, within sight of Poland.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMurders. Threats. Torture. Arbitrariness. Arrests. Rape. Expulsions. Destruction. Deportation. Cleansing. Hangover. Anguish. Absence.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn the accompanying lecture, author and curator Kl\u00e1ra Trskov\u00e1 reflects on the concepts of the nation-state, collective guilt, and punishment. The discussion with the audience may open questions such as why ethnic cleansing and the forced movement of millions of people into so-called nationally homogeneous states have occurred \u2014 and continue to occur \u2014 or whether violence against those labeled as \u201cinappropriate persons\u201d is somehow inscribed in the very idea of the nation-state. Why do political leaders across countries keep returning to the notion that a \u201ccleansed,\u201d ethnically uniform state promises a simpler and better future? And how do communities feel that have never been able to claim a nation-state of their own?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe program can be made accessible in English upon request.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCamera, editing: Ane\u017eka Horov\u00e1\u00a0
Animation: panika.xyz<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/etcgalerie.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ETC_2025_FB_COVER-1.jpg\")
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