9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners (46)
9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty (8)
22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions (5)
27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers (3)
31. 10. 1967 – Spontaneous student demonstration in Prague (3)
5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring (95)
1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák (19)
5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans) (5)
21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops (145)
22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ (1)
19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r (4)
18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation (8)
17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period (10)
16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation (16)
born 11th May 1921 in Jasiň, Transcarpathian Ruthenia
fled to the USSR in 1940
imprisoned and sentenced to 5 years in Siberian labour camps for illegally crossing the borders and for espionage
joined the Czechoslovak army in Buzuluk
first combat assignment at ...
born on 6th November 1932 in Kunovice in the Uherské Hradiště region
at the age of nearly 17 made his first attempt to flee abroad with a friend
in Austria persuaded by a communist spy to return to Czechoslovakia
four months imprisoned in Uherské Hradiště
26 ...

Born in 1929 in Střelské Hoštice
During the war the family was helping Russian fugitives
After the war he passed the Scout promise
1948 – anti-Communist activities, tried to emigrate
1949 – arrested, sentenced to twelve years
Nine months in the Bory ...
Born in Prague 13th July 1935
1949 a member of an illegal boy scout unit
1952 sentenced to 6 years in prison
1954 sentenced for treason to 10 years in prison
1954–1960 labor camps Nikolaj a Rovnost (Jáchymov area), involved in intelligence activities
1960 ...

she was born August 5, 1917 in Kežmarok
in 1940, as a 24-year-old, she married captain Alexander Korda, a career officer
from 1945 he served as an officer at the Military Academy in Hranice na Moravě
in May 1949 he was however arrested, subjected to brutal ...
born 1922 in Suffolk county, England
a radar operator during WW2
1943, met Oldřich Kovanda, a Czechoslovak soldier in England
gave birth to a son, Karel, in 1944, and a daughter, Marie, in 1946
moved to Czechoslovakia in August 1946
lived in Slovakia from ...
born on 19th November 1927 in Jouet sur l´Aubois in France
during the war studied in Brno for a waiter
on 1st October 1949 jointed up the military service in the 4th tank troop in Žatec, whose commandant was Captain Karel Sabela
participant in the Žatec putsch, ...
born in Valtice in Břeclav region on June 14th, 1926
having finished his primary school he moved with his parents to Otrokovice in 1938
he attended foreign-language Baťa's school of work during the war
in 1944 he joined Jan Žižka from Trocnov guerrilla brigade ...

born 1934 in Mlázovy
her father František Lerach was involved in the organization Obrana národa (Defence of the Nation)
as a child she used to play with the Mašín brothers
her father František Lerach was executed in 1941
her aunt Anna Lerachová was hiding ...
born April 23, 1927 in Horinchevo in Carpathian Ruthenia
grew up in South Bohemia and Prague
after the war studied at the Law Faculty of Charles University, publishing activity in the magazine Vývoj
emigrated after February 1948
1951–1973 editor of Radio Free ...