A warder in a communist prison

Political prisoners

Vladimír Bouz

First Lieutenant (ret.) Vladimír Bouz

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs and 4 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Vladimír Čada at the military service

Vladimír Čada

* 1940

A warder in a communist prison, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

Michal Demjan

Michal Demjan

* 1921 †︎ 2019

A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front and 3 more categories

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

At the age of 14

Karel Duben

* 1944

A warder in a communist prison, The Sportsmen

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Ludvík Florián in 1954

Ludvík Florián

* 1936

A warder in a communist prison, Underage political prisoners, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner and 5 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Major StB Vratislav Herold in the 1960s

Vratislav Herold

* 1927 †︎ 2010

A secret police collaborator, A secret police agent, A warder in a communist prison, Forced labour during the WW2

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Vladimír Hnetecký, 31.10.2012

Captain (ret.) Vladimír Hnetecký

* 1927 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities and 5 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 2 more anniversaries

František Horák in a photo from his youth in a service uniform, most likely from the 50s of the 20th century

František Horák

* 1927

A warder in a communist prison, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth and 3 more anniversaries

Broumov, 1946

Major (ret.) Jan Iljáš

* 1922 †︎ 2021

A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Klesa

Josef Klesa

* 1921

A warder in a communist prison, Forced labour during the WW2

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka

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