5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising | Memory of Nations

Jiří Matulák 1973_detail.jpg (historic)

Jiří Matulák

* 1927

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt

Christian Mayer

Christian Mayer

* 1923

Boy Scouts

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

With her brother, 1983

Věra Meier

* 1973

Member of an Illegal Church, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Repressions of the totalitarian regime in the 1970s in Ukraine, The Revival of Ukrainian national culture 1989 - 1991, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising and 1 more anniversaries

Rudolf Mejsnar playing the violin (1940s)

Rudolf Mejsnar

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 8 more anniversaries

Photo from the Boy Scout chronicle

Vladimír Mejstřík

* 1932

Boy Scouts

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Marie Mezerová as a student

Marie Mezerová

* 1932

Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Zdislava Michlová

* 1924 †︎ 2016

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

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death and 2 more anniversaries

Miloš Miltner as a private in the Auxiliary Technical Battalions

Miloš Miltner

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš and 2 more anniversaries

Rajna Milunič Sopková in archive photography

Rajna Milunič Sopková

* 1945

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Relatives of important personalities, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Art and censorship

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 6 more anniversaries

Contemporary photo

Jiří Minařík

* 1938 †︎ 2012

Emigrant, Border Guards

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 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 and 2 more anniversaries

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