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

Milan Prokeš as a student at the grammar school in Přerov

MUDr. Milan Prokeš

* 1931 †︎ 2025

Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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Heda Prokešová, roz. Najdrová

* 1934

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jiří Prokop in 1991, holding a letter written in Hebrew, photographed in Šmeral's factory

Jiří Prokop

* 1946

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Josef Prokopec

* 1919 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Royal Air Force and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel)

Photo from company ID card from the Czechoslovak Automotive Plants, 1972

Zdeňka Prokopiusová

* 1933

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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

Helena Prokůpková

* 1930

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Sokol

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Eva Protivánková in 2023

Eva Protivánková

* 1929 †︎ 2025

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

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

R. P. as a young man

Richard Průcha

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Journalist

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 3 more anniversaries

Jan Prüher, 2019

Jan Prüher

* 1933

Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Little Josef Ptacek in the garden in Studena (1951)

Josef Ptáček

* 1946

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

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

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