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

Petr Kotrbatý in 2024

Petr Kotrbatý

* 1950

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Jiří Kotrč in 1979

Jiří Kotrč

* 1960

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, The Sportsmen

Games of the XXIII Olympiad, 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

Marta Kottová

Marta Kottová

* 1929 †︎ 2017

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Boy Scouts, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt and 2 more anniversaries

Martina Kotyková, 2023

Ing. Martina Kotyková Ph.D.

* 1971

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

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

František Kotyz

Mgr. František Kotyz

* 1956

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše

Eva Koudelková, the late 1960s

Eva Koudelková Ph.D.

* 1949

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Portrait

Zdeněk Koukal

* 1954

Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Blažena Koulová, nee. Stepanikova, graduation photo, 1957

Blažena Koulová

* 1940

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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Kouřil, Velehrad, 1979

Mgr. Jan Kouřil

* 1956

Dissident, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Anti-communist rebel

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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