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Dušan Žampach, mid 70s

Dušan Žampach

* 1951 †︎ 2026

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Young Krystyna Zangová

Krystyna Zangová

* 1951

Poland, National minorities, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Michael Žantovský in 2022

Michael Žantovský

* 1949

Diplomat, Journalist, Writer, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Lubomír Zaorálek in 2022

PhDr. Lubomír Zaorálek

* 1956

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, University professor

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miloslav Zapadlo in 2024

Miloslav Zapadlo

* 1952

Political prisoner, Relative of a political prisoner, Charter 77 signatory, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Čeněk Zapletal in the graduation photo at the grammar school in Uherské Hradiště in 1966

PhDr. Čeněk Zapletal

* 1946

Member of Orel, Historian, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Rostislav Zapletal

Rostislav Zapletal

* 1931

National minorities, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence and 1 more anniversaries

Vladimír Zářecký in 1960

Vladimír Zářecký

* 1944

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Before Kovář's mother's injury: sister Marie on her grandmother's lap, mother Anna Kovářová on the right with her little sister Zdena in her arms, father Kovář on the back (1928)

Anna Zasadilová

* 1935

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Portrait 2

Gábor Zászlós

* 1951

Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 19.8.1989 - Pan-European Picnic, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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