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

Marie Pištěková, performance the Last Night of Joan of Arc (probably at the beginning of 1980s)

Marie Pištěková

* 1955

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Petr Placák

Petr Placák

* 1964

Dissident, The underground, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, The Plastic People of the Universe

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, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 2 more anniversaries

Ján Plachetka as a young man

Ing. Ján Plachetka

* 1945

Writer, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 3 more anniversaries

Anna Plobner

Anna Plobner

* 1932

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 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

Jan Plovajko after war

Jan Plovajko

* 1922 †︎ 2020

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

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

In the uniform of first lieutenant - 1965

Dalibor Plšek

* 1939

Border Guards

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Plunze_Foto_1.jpg (historic)

Frank Plunze

* 1962

Political prisoner in the GDR, Reception camp for GDR- refuges in Gießen, FRG, East German Refugee, The ransom of political prisoners in the GDR, Victims of East-German secret police (Stasi) and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Zbigniew Podleśny in 1966 as twentyseven years old

Zbigniew Marian Podleśny

* 1939

National minorities, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Dagmar Podubecká

* 1926

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Ivo Poduška as a youngster

Ivo Poduška

* 1936

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, Death marches 1944-1945, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 7 more anniversaries

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