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Doing his compulsory military service in Jaroměř; August 1951

Václav Němec

* 1932

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

During the basic military service in 1953

Richard Němec

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Václav Němeček in 1957

Václav Němeček

* 1938

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Nurse in the clinic of pediatric surgery

Jana Němečková

* 1936 †︎ 2022

Boy Scouts, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

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Blažena Nepauerová

* 1927

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

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zdeněk Neruda

Colonel (ret.) Zdeněk Neruda

* 1920 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Věra Nerušilová in 1980s

Věra Nerušilová

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Graduation photograph, May 1958

Stanislav Nesvadba

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Netrvalová Slávka as a young girl

Slávka Netrvalová

* 1925 †︎ 2025

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Václav Netuka

Václav Netuka

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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