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

Irena Freundová while filming the interview in 2019

Irena Freundová

* 1927

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 7 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Erik Frič

Jaroslav Erik Frič

* 1949 †︎ 2019

Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 1 more anniversaries

Jarmila Fricová, roz. Pálová

Jarmila Fricová, roz. Pálová

* 1929 †︎ unknown

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Déclassé

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

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Ing. Pavel Fried

* 1930 †︎ 2019

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts and 1 more categories

8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 5 more anniversaries

Hana Frištenská Štarková in 2021

JUDr. Hana Frištenská Štarková

* 1951

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Relative of a political prisoner, Gypsies / Roma, 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

As a twelve-year-old, 1958

Ladislav Fröde

* 1946

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Border Guards, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 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

Božena Frolová, late 1950s

Božena Frolová

* 1937

Volhynian Czechs, Ukraine, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Repatriated

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (1929 - 1950 рр.) and 4 more anniversaries

In the castle guard

Captain (ret.) Josef Fronc

* 1920 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Blažena Froncová

Blažena Froncová

* 1924

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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

1942 - graduation photo

Monsignor Vnislav Fruvirt

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical, Vicar without State agreement and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 3 more anniversaries

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