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

Jiří Hudeček in 2022

Jiří Hudeček

* 1939 †︎ 2024

Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Miroslav Hudeček 1985

Prof. ak. soch. Miroslav Hudeček

* 1935 †︎ 2025

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Zuzana Hudečková as a pioneer (early 1970s)

Zuzana Hudečková

* 1962

Lawyer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Wedding photograph of Vladimír Hudousek

Vladimír Hudousek

* 1941

Environmentalist, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Wedding photo of the witness

Marta Hudousková

* 1946

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Oldřich Hukal in his lieutenant uniform, 1959

Ing., Colonel Oldřich Hukal

* 1937

Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Boy Scouts, Sokol

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Period portrait of Jiří Hůla, Kostelec nad Černými lesy, early 1980s

Jiří Hůla

* 1944 †︎ 2022

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists, A cultural celebrity

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

Milan Hulík before 1989, when he was defending dissidents

JUDr. Milan Hulík

* 1946

Lawyer, 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

The witness on his mother's birthday, 21 August 1968

Rudolf Hůlka

* 1953

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, Palach Week and 1 more anniversaries

Jana Hůlková in Stroužné, 1978

Jana Hůlková

* 1954

Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland), The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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