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A this time, which inclines towards narrower and narrower specialisation, personalities of broad interests who can assert themselves in a variety of disciplines and activities are inevitably becoming scarce. One of these rare exceptions is a member of the editorial board of the Acta Silesiaca, a renowned historian, an ethnographer, and a university lecturer, a tireless organizer of scientific research and popularizer of its results, a journalist and a script writer, as well as an experienced traveller, prof. PhDr. Mečislav Borák, CSc. Míťa, as his friends call him, and I have known each other for forty years. We have cooperated on a number of research projects and I have had the opportunity to follow closely his diverse activities which have lead him to various corners of the world and which are still continuing, so one cannot believe that earlier this year he has celebrated only his 70th birthday. Let us grasp this opportunity to commemorate his work at least, far from consummated as it may be, the detailed evaluation of which is yet to be awaited from the hands of the next generation of historians.1 He was born towards the end of the war, on 31 January 1945, in Růžďka near Vsetín. However, he spent most of his childhood and youth in Frýdek-Místek. After finishing secondary school, he studied journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague. He graduated in the tumultuous year 1968, and after having performed the basic military service, he returned to the Ostravian outskirts in the autumn of the following year. He initially lived in Havířov, then moved to Ostrava, where he has been living to this day. At the start, Borák was attracted by modern history, but in the atmosphere of the norma-

A Search for Truth and Justice. Upon the Jubilee of Professor Mečislav Borák