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

Josefa Pavelcová on the graduation tableau, 1963

Mgr. Josefa Eliášová

* 1945

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer, Relative of a political prisoner

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

Slavěna Eliášová as a child

Slavěna Eliášová

* 1943

Relative of a political prisoner, Volhynian Czechs

1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Karel Ellinger

Karel Ellinger

* 1928 †︎ 2024

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

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, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Vladimír Emmer, school-leaving photo, 1970

Vladimír Emmer

* 1952

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

Graduation photo of Dagmar Emmerová

Dagmar Emmerová

* 1954

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

20-year old Milan Enc in 1956

Milan Enc

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death and 3 more anniversaries

Wilken Engelbrecht, 2025

Professor Wilken Engelbrecht

* 1962

The Netherlands, University professor

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

A Portrait of Hugo Engelhart on the Day of His Marriage

Hugo Engelhart

* 1926 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , Battle of the Bulge, 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest and 8 more anniversaries

Lída Engelová with her brother Tomáš, National Theatre, 1970

Lída Engelová

* 1944

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Eppelmann / Initiative "Demokratischer Aufbruch"

Rainer Eppelmann

* 1943

Dissident, Non-Catholic clerical, Politician

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall and 1 more anniversaries

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