---
title: "Jan Blažek"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Jan Blažek"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Paměť národa (Memory of Nations)","Max van der Stoel","Jan Patočka","Charter 77"]
seek_code_commit: "290e6f6"
---


Journalist and editor at Paměť národa (Memory of Nations), the Post Bellum
oral-history archive, who authored its 2024 article on the newly-received
Max van der Stoel recording.

Matters to this vault as the author of the article at the center of the
vault's original van der Stoel–Patočka dating discrepancy — its own
headline says January 1977, its own body says 1 March 1977 — and as the
source of the article's acknowledgment that the archive's underlying 1996
tape is too degraded to publish in full. **Not to be confused** with
historian [[entity-petr-blazek|Petr Blažek]] (ÚSTR), who authored the
separate StB-file interrogation-date material in
[[claim-blazek-stb-file-dates-patocka-interrogation-3-march-1977-prosecution-halted]];
no relation between the two has been established.

## References

- [[claim-pametnaroda-1996-van-der-stoel-tape-too-degraded-to-publish]]
- [[claim-verkijk-1977-recording-patocka-van-der-stoel-meeting-survives-zvuky-prahy]]