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

Vladimír Novotný in childhood

Vladimír Novotný

* 1933

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans), 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Richard Nový at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo

doc. Ing.,CSc. Richard Nový

* 1937

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague

Drahoslava Rút Tomešová, later Nývltová, 1947

Drahoslava Rút Nývltová

* 1937

People helping Jews during WWII, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 5 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 7 more anniversaries

Student Václav Obadálek

Václav Obadálek

* 1961

Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Věra Obručová during recording for Memory of Nations, 4 September 2022, Vizovice

JUDr. Věra Obručová

* 1935

Sudeten Germans, 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 and 4 more anniversaries

Arnošt Obrusník at the apprenticeship school for bakers in Hladke Životice in 1954

Arnošt Obrusník

* 1939

German minority in Poland after 1945, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sudeten Germans and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20 October 1944 - Liberation of Belgrade, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 5 more anniversaries

Jiří Otčenášek (2015)

Jiří Očenášek

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts, The Sportsmen and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 9 more anniversaries

Miloslav Ohlídal, early 1960s

Miloslav Ohlídal

* 1940

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

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Marie Ohlídalová. A photo that she sent to her future husband in the army

Marie Ohlídalová

* 1941

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

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jaroslav Oliverius

Jaroslav Oliverius

* 1933 †︎ 2020

A cultural celebrity

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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