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Mindu Hornick in 1948

Mindu Hornick

* 1929

United Kingdom, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945 and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 4 more anniversaries

While singing

Marie Horová

* 1934

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

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Vlastimil Hort as a little boy - already with a chessboard

Vlastimil Hort

* 1944 †︎ 2025

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Karel Hošek (1945)

Karel Hošek

* 1919 †︎ 2019

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Eva Hoskovcová, amateur theatre group Na nádraží, play "Mrs. Fashion Reigns for Ages", circa 1954-55

Eva Hoskovcová

* 1933

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden and 7 more anniversaries

Self-portrait, 1954, 32 x 25 cm, charcoal drawing, study for an oil painting of his hand; created in his poorly lit student apartment in Karolína Světlá Street

academic painter Josef Hošna

* 1926 †︎ 2022

A cultural celebrity, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Ivo Houf in the 1930s

Ivo Houf

* 1933

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

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Mr. Houska - Portrait - 50 years

Lubomír Houska

* 1933 †︎ 2023

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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František Hovora

* 1914 †︎ 2011

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Sokol

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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František Hrabánek

* 1936

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Theresienstadt Ghetto, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

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