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

Jitka Jachninová, 1970s

Jitka Jachninová

* 1929

Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Jagr in the Memory of the Nation studio, November 2022

Jaroslav Jágr

* 1932

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Jitka and her parents, Marie and Edvard, in Prague in 1943

Jitka Jágrová

* 1939

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé, Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, University professor and 1 more categories

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 3 more anniversaries

Libuše Jahodová in 1951

Libuše Jahodová

* 1941

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

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Pavel Jajtner swearing an oath as an electrical engineer graduate, Brno, October 1972

Ing. Pavel Jajtner

* 1947

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 8 more anniversaries

Eva Jaklová, 2021

Eva Jaklová

* 1939

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

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Ladislav Jakub at military school

Ladislav Jakub

* 1948 †︎ 2021

Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 6 more anniversaries

Jan Jakubec

Lieutenant (ret.) Jan Jakubec

* 1915 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk and 1 more anniversaries

Theodor Jan, 1960

Ing. Theodor Jan

* 1935

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 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, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

Dobromila baptised in the age of 9 months, 1933

Dobromila Janáková

* 1932

National minorities, Holocaust, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš, 1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine and 2 more anniversaries

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