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

Andrej Novák

Andrej Novák

* 1918 †︎ 2005

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

František Novák, circa 2000

František Novák

* 1934

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Novák at work stenographing

PhDr. Jiří Novák

* 1927 †︎ 2025

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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Jiří Novák

* 1931

A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Josef Novák

Colonel Josef Novák

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Forced labour during the WW2, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Wehrmacht soldier

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Sister Richardis with her aunt during the war

Helena - Richardis Nováková

* 1928

Representative of the Church, Member of an Illegal Church

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Jiřina Nováková, graduation photography - SVVŠ Botičská, Prague 1963

RNDr. Jiřina Marie Nováková

* 1945

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Holocaust, International Brigadiers and 5 more categories

20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 4 more anniversaries

Karin Nováková, 1960s

Karin Nováková

* 1942

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 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

The witness in Ostroh, Volhynia, 1943

Soňa Nováková

* 1936

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Volhynian Czechs, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Life along the Iron Curtain

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Věra Nováková, in Bráník- Prague, 50th

Věra Nováková

* 1928 †︎ 2024

Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship, Artists

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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 1 more anniversaries

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