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

V. Ježek, osmdesátá léta.JPG (historic)

Vlastimil Ježek

* 1963

Journalist, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Writer

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

Věra Ježková (en)

Věra Ježková

* 1942

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

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

Jiří Jícha - soldier of basic service - in uniform of the Border Guard in 1979

Major Jiří Jícha

* 1957

Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain, Historian and 1 more categories

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

Zdeněk Jičínský 1968

Professor Zdeněk Jičínský

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Communist official, Déclassé, Politician, Charter 77 signatory, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns and 8 more anniversaries

First communion in the church in Borová, 1955

Petr Jílek

* 1956

Dissident, Environmentalist, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

High school graduation portrait of Václav Jílek, 1968

Václav Jílek

* 1949

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Jílková in the second half of 1960s

Marie Jílková

* 1949

Member of an Illegal Church, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

At the time of graduation

Mgr. Ing. Marie Jílková

* 1950

Anti-communist rebel, 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, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Věra Jílková, 2014

Věra Jílková

* 1922

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb

Bohumila Jindrová in 1951

Bohumila Jindrová

* 1935 †︎ 2025

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 5 more anniversaries

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