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Halyna Barbulyak with grandmother Anna

Halyna Barbulyak

* 1971

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

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Secondary school graduation photo, 1988

Mgr. Jana Bártková

* 1969

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Helena Bračíková (Bychová) in her childhood

Helena Bračíková

* 1950

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Halyna Čabanová in the 1960s

Halyna Čabanová

* 1952

Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine in 1990-s., The Orange Revolution of 2004 and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Domanskij in 2019

Jaroslav Domanskij

* 1955

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Jaroslav Dostál, 80s

Ing., Major Jaroslav Dostál

* 1966

Witness of local events from the Communist era

Perestroika, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Witness Karol Dubovan as a young man

Ing. Karol Dubovan

* 1953

Member of an Illegal Church, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Politician and 20 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities and 20 more anniversaries

Detail of a photograph from a private forbidden board (1974)

PhDr. Jiří Dvořák

* 1955

Historian, People helping Jews during WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor, Life along the Iron Curtain

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Fic at the Dolní Smrčná camp (1958)

Jiří Fic

* 1949

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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 , 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

In a Hanakian costume

Mgr. Jarmila Frajtová

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

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