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

Young Tamara

Tamara Lenzová

* 1919

Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

Aurel Lesák, 1950s

Aurel Lesák

* 1930

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

633-portrait_former.jpg (historic)

Josef Lesák

* 1920 †︎ 2009

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Sokol

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 11 more anniversaries

Elena Letňanová during a concert in the American city of Dayton (1989)

Elena Letňanová

* 1942

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Relatives of important personalities, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

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, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral and 2 more anniversaries

Portrait

Ludmila Levá

* 1934

Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

Anna Levová

Mgr. Anna Levová

* 1946

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Volhynian Czechs

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

As a boy

Ing. Petr Lewi

* 1933

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relatives of important personalities, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 9 more anniversaries

Jiří Lexa, circa 1958

Jiří Lexa

* 1941

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Josef Lexa, 1960

Ing. Josef Lexa

* 1936

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Karel Ležák.jpg (historic)

Karel Ležák

* 1928

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 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, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Statistics: 20788 Witnesses the Database; 11702 Witness Stories; 21391 Registered Researchers; 173766 Photos; 69115 Clips