In the early 1950s, the Communist regime removed hundreds of Roman Catholic nuns from their convents and sent them to the village of Bílá Voda. For decades they were kept under close watch by security forces and could only practice their religion in secret.
Twenty-five years after Czechoslovakia’s "velvet revolution”, the village of Bílá Voda has decided to take on the legacy of the Communist past. The major is planning a museum devoted to the memory of the nuns who were banished there.
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