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

Michal Hečka

Major (ret.) Michal Hečka

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Red Army soldier and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Portrét, rok 1939

Eva Heferová, roz. Měkynová

* 1928

Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Witness during shooting as a member of the Association for Cooperation with the Army (Svazarm), Varnsdorf, 1950

Ervín Heinl

* 1932

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé, Industrial settler in border region in 60', Life along the Iron Curtain

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden and 7 more anniversaries

Alena Heinrichová in 2020

Alena Heinrichová

* 1943

Farmer

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

maturita

Professor, PhDr. Ladislav Hejdánek

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel, Charter 77 signatory, Scientist and 3 more categories

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 3 more anniversaries

Zdeněk Hejmala, graduation photo, 1945

Zdeněk Hejmala

* 1924

Anti-communist rebel, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial and 1 more anniversaries

Milan Hejný - Tábor výřez.jpg (historic)

Prof. RNDr., CSc. Milan Hejný

* 1936

Relatives of important personalities, Scientist, A cultural celebrity

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Vladimír Hejtmanský in 1964

Vladimír Hejtmanský

* 1941

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

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Marta Henclová in the early 1950s

Marta Henclová

* 1920

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Yvetta in Scout uniform

Yvetta Hendrichová

* 1929 †︎ 2022

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

1940 - The Battle of France, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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