Václav Vaško

Václav Vaško (26 April 1921 – 20 May 2009) was a Czech diplomat, human rights activist, author of books dealing with the history of the Catholic Church during the Soviet occupation and communist dictatorship, and a former political prisoner of the communist regime.

Václav Vaško in 1994

He was awarded the Medal of Merit by President Václav Havel on 28 October 1998. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[1]

Works
  • Neumlčená (a chronicle of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia during the communist dictatorship, written in the 1980s, published in 1990 in two volumes)
  • Kardinál Tomášek (1994, co-authored with Jan Hartmann, Bohumil Svoboda et al.)
  • Ne vším jsem byl rád (1999, 2001)
  • Dům na skále
    • Církev zkoušená (2004)
    • Církev bojující (2007)
    • Církev vězněná (2008)[2]
  • Likvidace řeckokatolické církve (2007)

References
  1. "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 February 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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