23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation | Memory of Nations

František Mikloško, then chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and Pavol Abrhan (1990)

Ing. Pavol Abrhan

* 1959

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Politician, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava and 4 more anniversaries

the witness Ivan Adam as a soldier in the basic military service

Ivan Adame

* 1943 †︎ 2021

Anti-communist rebel, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

Marie Adámková (Hurtíková) in 1946

Marie Adámková

* 1930 †︎ 2020

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Lieutenant Vladislav Albrecht

* 1923 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Farmer

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Marie Andělová

Marie Andělová

* 1941 †︎ 2019

People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Hidden people

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

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Jiří Anderle

* 1936

Boy Scouts, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Anna Antlová, neé Mátlová, graduation photo, 1963

Anna Antlová

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Ascherlová Hana (*1955)

Hana Ascherlová

* 1955

Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Witness Josef Bábek

Josef Bábek

* 1941

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jozef Babiak

* 1934

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner and 1 more categories

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

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