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

Radim Kolář, 2024

Radim Kolář

* 1956

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Kolář in 1956

Vladimír Kolář

* 1936

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Zdeněk Kolařík with his father Emanuel, 1944, Veselí nad Moravou

Zdeněk Kolařík

* 1943

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

Koláriková Zdenka mladá

Zdenka Koláriková, rod. Kutová

* 1933

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Marie Kolářová, historical photo, Prague, undated

Marie Kolářová

* 1929

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Graduation photo of Natalija Kolářová, then Tomášková

Natalija Kolářová

* 1940

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Kolbasňuk Vasil as a member of ČSR police

Lieutenant Colonel Vasil Kolbasňuk

* 1921 †︎ 2011

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Volhynian Czechs

3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

University student; September 1961

Ing. Jiří Kolda

* 1942

Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Young man František Kolečkář

František Kolečkář

* 1932 †︎ 2019

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Josef Kolečko, cca 1938

Josef Kolečko

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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