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

Svatopluk Klinkovský during an interview for Memory of Nations and the documentary Ševci 90, 2019

Svatopluk Klinkovský

* 1928 †︎ 2020

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Klišík in 2023

František Klišík

* 1963 †︎ 2025

Human Rights Defender, Dissident, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements and 7 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída and 2 more anniversaries

Witness as a 20-year-old man, 1984

Otomar Klodner

* 1964

Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground, Anti-communist rebel

Palach Week, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Ewa Klosova 1989

Ewa Klosová

* 1953

Dissident, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Elmar Kloss

Master of Fine Arts Elmar Kloss

* 1942

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

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

Miloslav Kloubek, student years

Mgr. Miloslav Kloubek

* 1960

Representative of the Church, Non-Catholic clerical, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, War veteran after 1989

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

Jaroslav Klouda (undated)

Jaroslav Klouda

* 1931

Communist official, Politician, 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Ivo Klouda in 2020.

Ivo Klouda

* 1938

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin and 5 more anniversaries

Milan Kluc in 1958

Milan Kluc

* 1938 †︎ 2023

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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

Marie Klusáčková, the Childhood in England, 1940 - 1945

Marie Klusáčková

* 1939

Participant in antifascist resistance, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Repatriated

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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