21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops | Memory of Nations

Lubomír Sazovský / Ostrava / June 2019

Lubomír Sazovský

* 1956

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Bedřich Ščerban during filming

Bedřich Ščerban

* 1964

The Sportsmen

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

Bedrich with his wife

Bedřich Schalek

* 1913

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Charlotte Scharfová (sitting second from the bottom right) in a primary school in her native Albrechtice, turn of the 1940s and 1950s

Charlotte Scharfová

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, 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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

ČSSR representative Pavel Schenk

Pavel Schenk

* 1941

The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich

Edvard Schiffauer in mid-1960s

Edvard Schiffauer

* 1942

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, A cultural celebrity, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 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, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Tomas Schilla during filming, 2025

Mgr. Tomáš Schilla

* 1958

The Plastic People of the Universe, Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground and 3 more categories

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime and 2 more anniversaries

Musician Lubomir Schimmer

Lubomír Schimmer

* 1939

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 1 more anniversaries

Viktor Schindler - 2016

Viktor Schindler

* 1935 †︎ 2019

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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

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Helena Schmaus-Shoonerová

* 1938 †︎ 2018

Déclassé, Relatives of important personalities, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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

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