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

Václav Balon in KT Dachau

Václav Balon

* 1922

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Josef Bannert

* 1947 †︎ 2024

Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jaroslav Baný, 2022

Mgr. Jaroslav Baný

* 1936 †︎ 2023

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 3 more anniversaries

Witness - Jozef Banyák

Mgr. Jozef Banyák

* 1958 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Radio Free Europe, Gypsies / Roma, Art and censorship

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, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Břetislav Baran / Olomouc 2018

Břetislav Baran

* 1928

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Mykola Baranovskij - Sokolovskij

Mykola Baranovskij - Sokolovskij

* 1928

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Accreditation card from the 1975 World University Games in Romania

Michal Barda

* 1955

The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Robert Bardfeld, 1942

Robert Bardfeld

* 1925 †︎ 2019

Political prisoner in WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 3 more anniversaries

Ema Barešová, circa 1940

JUDr. Ema Barešová

* 1932

Déclassé, Relatives of important personalities, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, Likvidace starého Mostu, 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 and 6 more anniversaries

Anna Bařinová, a portrait

Anna Bařinová

* 1926 †︎ unknown

Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 9 more anniversaries

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