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Michael Plátek, Liberec, 2024

Michael Plátek

* 1966

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Platz Josef

Josef Platz

* 1937 †︎ 2024

Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Plch standing as a model for his then girlfriend Kateřina Kučerová in 1970

Mgr. Ladislav Plch

* 1945

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Historian, Illegal border crossing, Journalist, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Zbyněk Plesar at a draft board, 1960s

Zbyněk Plesar

* 1950

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Blažena Plesarová in her youth

Blažena Plesarová

* 1929

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Zdena Plesarová, 2016

Zdena Plesarová

* 1947

Relatives of important personalities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Josef Pleskot in a graduation photo (1972)

Ing., Arch. Josef Pleskot

* 1952

Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, Palach Week

Anna Plesníková

Anna Plesníková

* 1937

People helping Jews during WWII, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Graduation photo, 1964

Ing. Oldřich Pleštil

* 1946

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, A secret police collaborator, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The topic of security forces before 1989

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Helena Pletichová, 2023

Helena Pletichová

* 1948

Sokol, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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