Historian, film-maker focusing on 1945 massacre get R.Medek Prize

Historian Frantisek Hybl and actor and film director Jiri Havelka were presented with the Rudolf Medek Prize today, the thing they have in common being mainly the massacre near Prerov in June 1945, with which they dealt or are dealing in their works. Hybl, 80, dealt with the post-war massacre at the Svedske sance hill near Prerov, north Moravia, for over 30 years and was previously awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit for his work. Havelka, 41, has focused on the issue within his project in the National Theatre in Prague. A total of 265 Carpathian Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks were massacred at Svedske sance in the night of June 18-19, 1945.