25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR | Memory of Nations

1943 with code name Toman

Colonel (ret.) Vladimír Maděra

* 1917 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant and 2 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Mádrová photo from prison

Eva Mádrová

* 1927 †︎ 2009

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Victim of forced relocation

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Vlastimir Maier

Vlastimir Maier

* 1932

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Marie Maitnerová in a wedding photo

Marie Maitnerová

* 1943

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

M. Maixnerová - old foto

Marie Maixnerová

* 1922

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Friars, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

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

Mgr. Václav Majer

* 1930

Holocaust, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Emigrants from Russia, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 3 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Makrot 1944

Jaroslav Makrot

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Holocaust, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Mala_portret_dob.jpg (historic)

Marie Malá

* 1939

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Antonín Malach, historical photograph

Antonín Malach

* 1926 †︎ 2023

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Archive photo of Jiří Malášek

Jiří Malášek

* 1938

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Radio Free Europe, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich and 1 more anniversaries

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