22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions | Memory of Nations

Jaromir Stojan (*1929)

Jaromír Stojan

* 1929

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Witness in military uniform, 1940s

generálmajor Ing. Ignác Syrovátka

* 1914 †︎ 1998

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 9 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 6 more anniversaries

Ladislav Tměj

Ladislav Tměj

* 1933

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

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Jana Tomášková

* 1947

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner, Life along the Iron Curtain

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

From the time of his military service which he undertook at the Zvolen airport, 1955

Josef Trpák

* 1935

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements and 7 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Václav Tuček born on 1946

Ing. Václav Tuček

* 1945 †︎ 2021

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Vankova orez.jpg (historic)

Eva Vaňková

* 1930

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Radio Free Europe

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions

Zdenka Vévodová at approx. five years of age

Zdenka Vévodová

* 1937

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions

Petr Závodský, 1966

Petr Závodský

* 1947

Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner

20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz and 4 more anniversaries

Jiří Závodský (en)

Ing. Jiří Závodský

* 1949

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 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

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