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

Portrait of Petr Vogel, 1968, part of archive file no. 21092 C from the Security Services Archive of the Czech Republic

Prof. PhDr., Dr. H. c. Petr Vogel

* 1937

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, United States of America, Russia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 7 more categories

Dissolution of the Soviet Union, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Petr Volf as a child, 1942

Petr Volf

* 1940

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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 and 2 more anniversaries

Jana Adášková - Volfová - in time of school

Jana Volfová

* 1934

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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation and 1 more anniversaries

Young Vladimír Vonka

Prof. MUDr., CSc. Vladimír Vonka

* 1930 †︎ 2025

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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 and 1 more anniversaries

Jana Voráčková at the age of 15, 1961

Jana Voráčková

* 1946

Memory of vanished settlements, Witness of local events from the Communist era, National minorities, Sudeten Germans

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

Václav Vorlíček 2017

Václav Vorlíček

* 1930 †︎ 2019

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Michaela Vorlíčková in 2024

Prof. RnDr., DrSc Michaela Vorlíčková

* 1945

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, 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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Moscow, shortly after his arrival from Czechoslovakia

Eduard Arkaďjevič Vorobjov

* 1938

Soldier of the Soviet Army, Russia

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Vošahlík Miroslav

Miroslav Vošahlík

* 1943

Emigrant, Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída and 3 more anniversaries

Hana Vosečková (en)

Hana Vosečková

* 1954

Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Anti-communist rebel

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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