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

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Marie Švirgová, roz. Svačinová

* 1936 †︎ 2022

A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

mlysnář Svoboda za mlada – kopie.jpeg (historic)

Antonín Svoboda

* 1938

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jiřina Svobodová, 1980s

Jiřina Svobodová

* 1937

Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990 and 1 more categories

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

Marie Sýkorová, née Táborská, in 1953

Marie Sýkorová

* 1936

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 22 more anniversaries

František Tampier in 1958

František Tampier

* 1937 †︎ 2025

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Gerard Tatarczyk

Gerard Tatarczyk

* 1929

Poland, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jan Teichmann, approximately mid-1960s

Jan Teichmann

* 1937

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Portrét, osmnáctiletý

Jaroslav Teplý

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Photograph from investigative documents of the secret police

Václav Teplý

* 1928 †︎ 2016

Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner and 1 more categories

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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