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

Young man

JUDr. Václav Eliáš

* 1929 †︎ 2017

Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Contemporary photo - 1953

Václav Eliáš

* 1935 †︎ 2021

Underage political prisoners, Relative of a political prisoner

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 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, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

Jana Eliášová as a young woman

Jana Eliášová

* 1947

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Karel Ellinger

Karel Ellinger

* 1928 †︎ 2024

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

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

A Portrait of Hugo Engelhart on the Day of His Marriage

Hugo Engelhart

* 1926 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , Battle of the Bulge, 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest and 8 more anniversaries

Petr Eisenberg in May 1940

Petr Erben

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Boy Scouts and 4 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz and 1 more anniversaries

Eva Erbenová, 1948

Eva Erbenová

* 1930

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 6 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Graduation photo, 1971

MUDr. Rita Erbenová

* 1953

Relative of a political prisoner, 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

Alžběta Ešnerová, 1954

Alžběta Ešnerová

* 1937 †︎ 2025

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Věra Pauková, married name Ettelová, 1959

Věra Ettelová

* 1942

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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