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

Václav Schreiber

Václav Schreiber

* 1940

Sokol, 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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Anna Schreiber in the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo. Photographed in Trutnov, where the witness worked in a factory Texlen.

Anna Schreiberová

* 1928 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

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Zdenka Schubertová

* 1929 †︎ 2009

Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Non-Catholic clerical

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

Marta Schwarcová

Marta Schwarcová

* 1946

Relative of a political prisoner

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

Ivan Schwarz in the RAF

Major General (ret.) Ivan Otto Schwarz

* 1923 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Emigrant, Royal Air Force

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Stanislav Schwarz in a Sokol uniform (1938)

Stanislav Schwarz

* 1934

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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 and 5 more anniversaries

Karel in his youth

Karel Schwarzenberg

* 1937 †︎ 2023

Diplomat, Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US and 9 more categories

23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 10 more anniversaries

Anna Magdalena Schwarzová

Anna Magdalena Schwarzová

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Representative of the Church, National minorities, Holocaust and 6 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 7 more anniversaries

Jiří Ščobák

* 1970

National minorities, Writer, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Volhynian Czechs

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Black Baron

Ján Šebák

* 1931

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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