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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

Jarmila Francová (Koutná)

Jarmila Koutná

* 1931

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

PhDr. Štefan Kováč

* 1940

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Miroslav Koval, 2016

Miroslav Koval

* 1944 †︎ 2022

Relative of a political prisoner, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Artists

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Kovanda, 20th birthday, Petřín 1973

Jiří Kovanda

* 1953

Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Jan as teenager

Jan Kovanic

* 1951

Anti-communist rebel

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, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

Kovařík Bohumil

Bohumil Kovařík

* 1934

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner and 3 more categories

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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Kovařík dobová.jpg (historic)

Ladislav Kovařík

* 1926

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, The Partisan, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Otmar Kowar as a mayor of Unsferau-Altweitra town (around 2018)

Otmar Kowar

* 1968

Politician, Farmer, Life along the Iron Curtain, Austria

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jan Kraaijeveld, Prague, 2025

Jan Kraaijeveld

* 1954

Clergymen, Supporter of Czechoslovak dissent from a western country, The Netherlands

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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