5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring | Memory of Nations

Marie Damborská

* 1927

Member of Orel, Illegal border crossing, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 5 more anniversaries

Václav Daněk, temporary portrait

Václav Daněk

* 1929 †︎ 2025

Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers and 4 more anniversaries

Contemporary portrait

Marie Danielová

* 1932

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Marie Dáňová, filming for Memory of Nation, Jihlava, July 2025

Marie Dáňová

* 1943

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Jiří David as a child, the 1960s

Jiří David

* 1956

Art and censorship, The underground, Artists, A cultural celebrity

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Davidovič, 24 years old

Ladislav Davidovič

* 1936

Underage political prisoners, Victim of forced relocation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 6 more anniversaries

Mr. Debnár's wife

Ján Debnár

* 1934

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 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 6 more anniversaries

Jiří Degl 1954

Jiří Degl

* 1944

A cultural celebrity, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 1 more anniversaries

Petr Deiml

* 1950

National minorities, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5.-10. 6. 1967 Six-Day War

Jaroslav Dejmek

* 1935 †︎ 2022

Déclassé, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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