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Tomáš Škopek in 2025

Tomáš Škopek

* 1942

Déclassé, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

Alois Škorpil, 1958

Alois Škorpil

* 1940 †︎ 2021

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

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Graduation photo of Zdeňka Rejhonová (married Skoumalová), 1951

PhDr., DrCs. Zdeňka Skoumalová

* 1932 †︎ 2020

Victim of forced relocation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Scientist

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death

Františka Skoupá in 1946

Františka Skoupá

* 1920

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Czech minority in the Serbia, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 6. 4. - 17. 4. 1941 Dubnová válka (Německý útok na Jugoslávii) , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Photograph of a witness and her friend from 1940 in Čachnov.

Božena Škrabalová

* 1934

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Skrbek in 2002

Ing. Doc. Jan Skrbek

* 1953

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Antonín Špika, witness' father, after his return from the Czechoslovak Legion, which fought on the Eastern front in the First World War.

Věra Skrbková

* 1926 †︎ 2023

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Vlasta Skřičková, 1944, photo from graduation photoboard

Vlasta Skřičková

* 1925

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Jaroslav Skřipka before military service

Jaroslav Skřipka

* 1936

Illegal border crossing, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more anniversaries

Marie Škrlová in her graduation photo (1956)

Marie Škrlová

* 1937

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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