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

Zdeněk Neruda

Colonel (ret.) Zdeněk Neruda

* 1920 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Věra Nerušilová in 1980s

Věra Nerušilová

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Břetislav Netolický following his military service

Břetislav Netolický

* 1937

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime and 1 more anniversaries

Michala Netrval as a little girl in Czech costume

Michala Netrval

* 1960

Emigrant

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

Netrvalová Slávka as a young girl

Slávka Netrvalová

* 1925 †︎ 2025

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Václav Netuka

Václav Netuka

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical

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, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Alfred Neudörfer in the Memory of Nation studio

Alfred Neudörfer

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Otto Neumann

Otto Neumann

* 1930 †︎ 2018

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Sudeten Germans, Member of an Illegal Church

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Marie Neumannová, 1952

Marie Neumannová

* 1935

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Ladislav Nezkusil

PhDr. Ladislav Nezkusil

* 1921

Communist official, Forced labour during the WW2

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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