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

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Zdeňka Deitchová

* 1928

A cultural celebrity, Relatives of important personalities, Art and censorship

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Kateřina Dejmal portrait from youth

Kateřina Dejmalová

* 1949

Dissident, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ludek del Maschio in 2024

Luděk del Maschio

* 1962

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Demčík

Jan Demčík

* 1913 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

Zoltán Demján

* 1955

The Sportsmen, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

PhDr. Ondrej Demo CSc.

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

Stanislav Devátý

* 1952

Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 signatory, Hidden people, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Diamant in 1954

Jiří Diamant

* 1930

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Pavel Dias

* 1938 †︎ 2021

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral

Jan Dittrich with his younger brother Dan, 14 April 1951

Jan Dittrich

* 1943

Non-Catholic clerical, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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