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Doc. Eva Machková

* 1931 †︎ 2023

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Mária Madácsy Lászlóné Szőke

Mária Madácsy Lászlóné Szőke

* 1940

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 1946 - Expell of ethnic Germans from Hungary

Vladimír Mádle at the army in 1965

Vladimír Mádle

* 1946

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Oto Mádr

Oto Mádr

* 1917 †︎ 2011

Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Charter 77 signatory, Boy Scouts and 1 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Libor Magdoň in 1977

Libor Magdoň

* 1969

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia

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

Archive photo of Jiří Malášek

Jiří Malášek

* 1938

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Radio Free Europe, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Malát at the army, mid-1960s

Václav Malát

* 1943

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 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

Josef Malecký - 1956

Josef Malecký

* 1931 †︎ 2019

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more anniversaries

Wedding photograph of Ladislava Malíková

Mgr. Ladislava Malíková

* 1968

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in 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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Ivan Malý, 2009

Ivan Malý

* 1922

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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