1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 | Memory of Nations

Konstantin Korovin in 1979

PhDr. Konstantin Korovin

* 1945 †︎ 2026

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s and 2 more anniversaries

Period portrait of the witness, cca 1999

PhDr. Eva Kosáková

* 1952

Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Relatives of important personalities, Charter 77 signatory and 4 more categories

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Jiří Kostúr

Jiří Kostúr

* 1942 †︎ 2023

Dissident, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Journalist, Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Iva Kotrlá, youth

Iva Kotrlá

* 1947

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 2 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Eva Koutecká in her youth

RNDr. Eva Koutecká

* 1933 †︎ 2023

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ivana Koutská

Mgr. Ivana Koutská

* 1947

Dissident, Historian, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Perestroika, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Karel Koutský, 2016

Karel Koutský

* 1965

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

Libuše Kozáková, 1958

Libuše Kozáková

* 1935

Déclassé, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Relatives of important personalities, Art and censorship, The underground and 1 more categories

22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia) and 1 more anniversaries

Petr Kozánek in contemporary photograph

Petr Kozánek

* 1949

Dissident, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Politician, Relatives of important personalities and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 1 more anniversaries

Graduation photograph of J. Kozlík - 1968

Jan Kozlík

* 1946

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Statistics: 20964 Witnesses the Database; 11846 Witness Stories; 21593 Registered Researchers; 175653 Photos; 69661 Clips