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

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

Zdeněk Kolek

Zdeněk Kolek

* 1933

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

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

Marta Kolesová in the role of the queen, production of Hamlet, Hradec Králové

Marta Kolesová

* 1923

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice and 10 more anniversaries

Stanislav Kolíbal

Stanislav Kolíbal

* 1925

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists, A cultural celebrity

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Ing., Mgr. Gabriel Kollár

* 1952

Journalist, The Sportsmen, Life along the Iron Curtain

Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Ruth Kollinger

* 1960

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ludvík Kolský, graduation photograph, 1966

Ludvík Kolský

* 1947

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

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