A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee | Memory of Nations

Vlastimil Hort as a little boy - already with a chessboard

Vlastimil Hort

* 1944 †︎ 2025

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

Zdenek Hostasa (1955)

Zdeněk Hostaša

* 1935

Anti-communist rebel, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

Portrait photograph of Libuše Hoznauerová, 1982 Prague

Libuše Hoznauerová

* 1934 †︎ 2016

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Sudeten Germans, A cultural celebrity

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Zdena Hraběová, a portrait

Zdenka Hraběová

* 1930 †︎ unknown

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Maruška after her graduation from university

PhDr. Marie Hrabik Šámalová

* 1940

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Scientist, Politician and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ilja Hradecký on the Charles´Bridge in the 1960s

Ilja Hradecký

* 1945

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, A cultural celebrity

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Lieutenant Václav Hrdlička

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jozef Hrdý as a student

SDB Jozef Hrdý

* 1923

Representative of the Church, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Olga Hruba

Olga Hrubá

* 1927

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

Jaroslav Hrubeš

Jaroslav Hrubeš

* 1926

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

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