1989 - The fall of the iron curtain | Memory of Nations

Rajna Milunič Sopková in archive photography

Rajna Milunič Sopková

* 1945

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Relatives of important personalities, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Art and censorship

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 6 more anniversaries

Pavel Minář in 2024

Pavel Minář

* 1958

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Historian

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, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat

František Miška (1925-26)

František Miška

* 1919 †︎ 2017

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of 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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Leoš Mlčák, high school graduation photo, Vsetín, 1967

PhDr. Leoš Mlčák

* 1948

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 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

Current photo - Boris Mlsna

Boris Mlsna

* 1962

The Sportsmen

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

Miroslav Mlynář, 1953.

Miroslav Mlynář

* 1938 †︎ 2025

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship, Artists and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Young Imrich Močko

Imrich Močko

* 1920

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Slovak army soldier during 1939 - 1945

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Adelina, 3 years old, with a doll in Moravian costume, Turda 1942

Adelina Mohrmannová

* 1939

Romania, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Herta Bernertová (Mondeková)

Herta Mondeková

* 1930

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

In a meadow outside Chrudim, summer of 1963

Adriena Morávková

* 1940

Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

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