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

Anna Šťastná, sister Dobromila -1951

Anna Šťastná (sestra Dobromila)

* 1928

Friars, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

M. Šťastná - old photo

Marie Šťastná

* 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

Jaroslav Stehlíček at the age of about 9 years

Jaroslav Stehlíček

* 1936

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

In Mariánské lázně

Professor, PhDr. Miloš Stehlík

* 1923

Historian, Catholic clerical, Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Photo taken during the eyd recording of the interview

Juraj Steiner

* 1936

Holocaust, National minorities

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Georgina Steinsky in 2019

Georgina Steinsky

* 1946

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

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

Alexandr Stejskal

* 1945

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín and 1 more anniversaries

Milan Stejskal in 1952

Ing. Milan Stejskal

* 1936

Sokol, 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 5 more anniversaries

Lubomír Štencl, 1990

Ing. Lubomír Štencl

* 1939

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, National minorities, Déclassé

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Contemporary portrait photograph of Václav Štěpán

Václav Štěpán

* 1935 †︎ 2023

Historian, A secret police collaborator, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

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