23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence | Memory of Nations

Jitka Borkovcová - Contemporary portrait - the cut

Jitka Borkovcová

* 1936 †︎ 2020

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

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

The first year of the Pammer family in their new house in Hungary. Mária at the top right. year 1947, Nagynyárád

Mária Bors

* 1933

Hungary, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945 and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1946 - Expell of ethnic Germans from Hungary , 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Březina, 1983

PhDr., CSc. Jiří Březina

* 1933

Emigrant, Scientist, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Brooser Gábor

Gábor Brooser

* 1927

Hungary, Member of underground Plast movement (Ukrainian boy-scouts) in Halychyna 1930-1939, People helping Jews during WWII

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Václava Buriánová at the time of the trial, 1957

Václava Buriánová

* 1928

Political prisoner, Sokol

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Dominik Duka in his youth

cardinal Jaroslav Dominik Duka

* 1943 †︎ 2025

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical and 7 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

Jaromír Dus, portrait, Prague 1957

Mgr. Jaromír Dus

* 1938

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Non-Catholic clerical, Vicar without State agreement

16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

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

At the First Holy Communion in 1941

Emil Fiala

* 1935

Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sokol, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories and 5 more anniversaries

Olga Raisová (1944)

Olga Fialová

* 1927 †︎ 2018

Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 9 more anniversaries

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