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

Marcela Kýrová - period photo

Marcela Kýrová

* 1944

Relatives of important personalities, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Igor Kyselka, 1982, graduation photo

Igor Kyselka

* 1963

Relatives of important personalities, 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 , 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Memoir shortly after emigration, Vienna, 1977

Josef Kyska

* 1954

Member of an Illegal Church, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Writer

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

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Ladislav Labancz

* 1939

National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945 and 1 more categories

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Lachman as a graduant in 1977

Dr. Jan Lachman

* 1962

Representative of the Church, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Catholic clerical

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

Oldřich Lacina (far right) on a military mission in Namibia, Africa, 1989, seated next to the mission chief Lieutenant General P. Chand

Ing., Colonel Oldřich Lacina

* 1954

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Israel/Palestine, War veteran after 1989, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Life along the Iron Curtain and 1 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Libuše Lacinová

Libuše Lacinová

* 1921 †︎ 2018

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Ľubica Lacinová

* 1959

Environmentalist, Scientist

31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Mgr. Marian Lacko

* 1962

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

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

Zdeňka Lackovičová, 2021, current photography

Zdeňka Lackovičová

* 1939

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 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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