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

Vladimír Hnetecký, 31.10.2012

Captain (ret.) Vladimír Hnetecký

* 1927 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities and 5 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939 and 2 more anniversaries

Jitka Hofmanová with mother Josefa and grandmother Bohumila

Jitka Hochmanová

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Pavel Höchsmann wearing the uniform of the Auxiliary Technical Batallions.

Pavel Höchsmann

* 1927

People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Royal Air Force, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 6 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Pavel Hoffmann after the liberation in 1945

Pavel Hoffmann

* 1939

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz and 3 more anniversaries

At work, 1987

MUDr. Vilém Hofman

* 1937

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

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

Antonie Hofmanova, 16 years old

Antonie Hofmanová

* 1923 †︎ 2009

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Antonín Hofmeister in 2023

Antonín Hofmeister

* 1943

Historian, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Hofrichter in 1944

Jaroslav Hofrichter

* 1920 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Royal Air Force, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Stanislav Holáň

Stanislav Holáň

* 1923 †︎ 2018

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Hidden people, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Member of Orel

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

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Jindřich Holas

* 1931

The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

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