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Jitka Havlová in 2019

Jitka Havlová

* 1933

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Ivo Havlovič in the 40s

Ivo Havlovič

* 1930

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

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Havránek at a hiking trip, 1970

Josef Havránek

* 1937

Official in JZD, Déclassé, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 6 more anniversaries

Bohumila Havránková, July 1941

Bohumila Havránková

* 1927 †︎ 2022

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Journalist, Sokol

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Jitka Havránková, mid-1950s

Jitka Havránková

* 1935

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Josef Havrda in 1959

Josef Havrda

* 1940

Political prisoner, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Farmer

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Ladislav Havrišák

Colonel (ret.) Ladislav Havrišák

* 1923 †︎ 2021

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Political prisoner in WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Dagmar Hazdrová, August 1968

Dagmar Hazdrová

* 1933

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Wedding photo of Elisabeth and Walter Hecht, March 25, 1958

Ing. Walter Hecht

* 1932

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Michal Hečka

Major (ret.) Michal Hečka

* 1924 †︎ 2023

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Red Army soldier and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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