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

Václav Balon in KT Dachau

Václav Balon

* 1922

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

MUDr. Stanislava Bannasová-Svojsíková

* 1952

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, Boy Scouts

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jaroslav Baný, 2022

Mgr. Jaroslav Baný

* 1936 †︎ 2023

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 3 more anniversaries

Accreditation card from the 1975 World University Games in Romania

Michal Barda

* 1955

The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Ema Barešová, circa 1940

JUDr. Ema Barešová

* 1932

Déclassé, Relatives of important personalities, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, Likvidace starého Mostu, 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 and 6 more anniversaries

Anna Bařinová, a portrait

Anna Bařinová

* 1926 †︎ unknown

Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 9 more anniversaries

Demonstration in Litomerice, The Velvet revolution

Zdeněk Bárta

* 1949

Dissident, Vicar without State agreement, Charter 77 signatory, Volhynian Czechs

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness Helena Bartíková

Helena Bartíková

* 1955

Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Bartl performing at Hašek's Lipnice, summer 1969

Zdeněk Bartl

* 1950

Art and censorship, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Luděk Bartoš during the recording for Memory of Nations, 7 June 2022, Olomouc

Mgr. Lieutenant Colonel Luděk Bartoš

* 1944 †︎ 2023

Déclassé, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 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 3 more anniversaries

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