17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia | Memory of Nations

Zdeněk Bašný

MUDr. Zdeněk Bašný

* 1955

Scientist

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Oldřich Bašta

Oldřich Bašta

* 1958

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, The underground

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Dolores Bata Arambasic on her home farm in Brazil

Dolores Baťa Arambasic

* 1948

Emigrant, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Relatives of important personalities, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jiří Bauer

JUDr. Jiří Bauer

* 1952

Lawyer, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Josef Bauer in the first half of the 1960s

Ing. Josef Bauer

* 1951

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Bauer in a traditional butcher's uniform in the year 1973

František Bauer

* 1957

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jiří Baumruk, 1970

Jiří Baumruk

* 1950 †︎ 2025

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Relative of a political prisoner, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miloslava Miriam Baumruková

Miloslava Miriam Baumruková

* 1949

Friars, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Josef Baxa, ca. 1985

JUDr. Josef Baxa

* 1959

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Jan Baxant after the First Holy Communion

Mons. Mgr. Jan Baxant

* 1948

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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