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

Contemporary photo (1971)

Ida Milotová, roz. Roučková

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 4 more anniversaries

Josef Mlejnek (2016)

Josef Mlejnek

* 1946

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, A cultural celebrity, Volhynian Czechs, Journalist and 2 more categories

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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 10 more anniversaries

Gheorghe Ion Munteanu

Gheorghe Ion Munteanu

* 1920

Romania, Political prisoner in Romania

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

18-year-old Andrea Nikolits

Andrea Nádasdy Nikolits

* 1933

Hungary, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ondřej Neff, 2016

PhDr. Ondřej Neff

* 1945

A cultural celebrity, Journalist

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 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, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter” and 1 more anniversaries

Václav Novák

Václav Novák

* 1928

Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Bálint Ordódy in Visegrád

Bálint Ordódy

* 1931

Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Emigrant, Déclassé, Radio Free Europe

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 1946-1949 nationalization of private enterprises and institutions in Hungary, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Tibor Pákh

Tibor Pákh

* 1924

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Political prisoner in the Kádár era, Anti-communist rebel

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1989 - Transition in Hungary

Anton Pasternák

* 1948

Holocaust, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Witness Peter Plichta

Peter Plichta

* 1948 †︎ 2023

Hungary, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945 and 3 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter” and 2 more anniversaries

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