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

Photo of Václav Kefurt

Václav Kefurt

* 1934 †︎ 2022

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 7 more anniversaries

Milan Kejzlar as a boy (in 1939)

Professor Ing. Milan Kejzlar CSc.

* 1928

Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

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Ing. Alexej Kelin

* 1942

Don Cossacks, Emigrant, National minorities, A cultural celebrity

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

Hana Kende in 1958

Hana Kende

* 1948

United Kingdom, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jiri Kende, 1968

Jiří Kende

* 1951

Relatives of important personalities, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Kenedi János

János Kenedi

* 1947 †︎ 2025

Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, Victim of the political police in Hungary, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Václav Keprt in 2025

Mgr. Václav Keprt

* 1960

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Boy Scouts

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, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Keprtová in her youth

Marie Keprtová

* 1931

Relative of a political prisoner, 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, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague

Witness on the stone bridge in Písek

Petr Keřka

* 1965

Art and censorship, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Antonín Kerner, technician of Stalin's factories in Záluží u Litvínova, 1955

Antonín Kerner

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death

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