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

Sukop- dobová fotka.JPG (historic)

Ladislav Sukop

* 1933

Member of an Illegal Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Boy Scouts

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jaroslav Šula / around 1966

Ing. Jaroslav Šula

* 1948

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Young Jarmila Sulcova

Jarmila Šulcová

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Václav Šulista from the university times (1949)

Václav Šulista

* 1930 †︎ 2022

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Jiří Šulitka, 1951

Jiří Šulitka

* 1932

National minorities, Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

portrét Šuman.jpg (historic)

Ing. Vladimír Šuman

* 1936 †︎ 2025

Relative of a political prisoner

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Šupa Josef 1957

Monsignor, ThDr. Josef Šupa

* 1937

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia

Marie Šurnická at the turn of the 1950s and 60s

Marie Šurnická

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of forced relocation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jana Špačková in 1959 - photo from the graduation board

Jana Sůvová

* 1942

Relative of a political prisoner

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Photo from the witness's teaching years in Hradec Králové - sometime after 1970

Vladimíra Sůvová

* 1940

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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