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

Ladislav Čerych in High School

Ladislav Čerych

* 1925 †︎ 2012

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Radio Free Europe

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

6 (1) – kopie.jpg (historic)

Stanislav Češka

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Vladimíra Cetkovská, 2021

Mgr. Vladimíra Cetkovská

* 1941

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

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, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 2 more anniversaries

Period photo of the witness

Marie Čežíková

* 1932

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

portrét.jpg (historic)

Ivan Chadima

* 1940

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Jitka Chaloupková, 1975

Jitka Chaloupková

* 1943

A cultural celebrity

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Zdeněk Chalupa, 1960s

Ing. Zdeněk Chalupa

* 1936

Illegal border crossing, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Zdislav Chalupa, 1960s

Zdislav Chalupa

* 1922

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Marie Chalupova 24 years

Marie Chalupová

* 1925 †︎ 2017

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 2 more categories

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

Period portrait

Albína Charvátová

* 1937

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

23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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