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

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

Marie Michaela Šechtlová, 1978 (en)

Marie Michaela Šechtlová

* 1952

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists, Relatives of important personalities, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

František Šedivý temporary portrait

Ing. František Šedivý

* 1927 †︎ 2021

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

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

Jaroslav Šedivý, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997)

PhDr. Jaroslav Šedivý

* 1929 †︎ 2023

Diplomat, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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 and 2 more anniversaries

Ervín Sedláček, 1942

Ervín Sedláček

* 1928

People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

František Sedláček as a pilot, 1954

František Sedláček

* 1931 †︎ 2022

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Photo from around 1980 / Jan Sedláček's archive

Jan Sedláček

* 1931 †︎ 2016

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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