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

Portrait of František Gabčo during his army service, Klatovy, 1967 or 1968

František Gabčo

* 1948

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Memory of vanished settlements

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

Michal Gabriel in his second year at AVU (Academy of Fine Arts in Prague) in the studio of the sculptor Kryštůfek

Professor Michal Gabriel

* 1960

Art and censorship, The underground, A cultural celebrity

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

the witness in 1952

Bohumila Gajdůšková

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness Jarmila Gajová in the Memory of Nations studio in 2023

Jarmila Gajová

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Portrait, 1964

Fedor Gál

* 1945

Dissident, Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Scientist, Politician and 1 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bohumil Galásek. Portrait, 2010

Mgr. Bohumil Galásek

* 1938

Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miroslava Galásková with her mother and brother in Prague on the way to Stara Ves nad Ondřejnicí (ca. 1954)

Miroslava Galásková

* 1946

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Yuri Galatenko / zero years

Jurij Galatenko

* 1964

Witness of local events from the Communist era

Ukraine in 1990-s., 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Wedding of the witness with Milan Galia, 1953

Iva Galiová

* 1934

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

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

My husband's grandfather Paľko in a historical photography

Sláva Gálová

* 1942

Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, A cultural celebrity

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

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