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

Miroslav Tupý, historical photography

Ing. Miroslav Tupý

* 1938 †︎ 2025

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

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

young Viliam Turek

Viliam Turek

* 1936 †︎ 2023

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Miloš Turek as a Prague long-hair, mid-1960s

Miloš Turek

* 1949

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), The underground, 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, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Turková, roz. Kratochvílová

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 9 May 1945 - 11 May 1945 Battle of Milin, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Eva Turner

* 1948

Emigrant, Relatives of important personalities, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

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

Anna Turoňová, 1950s

Anna Turoňová

* 1931

Romania, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jiřina Tvrdíková

Jiřina Tvrdíková

* 1923 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Political prisoner in WW2, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR and 2 more anniversaries

Přemysl Tvrdoň as an employee of Brno Printing Works

Přemysl Tvrdoň

* 1944

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

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

Václav Tvrdý, 31 years old

Václav Tvrdý

* 1953

Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Hana Tvrská

Hana Tvrská

* 1928 †︎ 2021

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

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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