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Milan Horáček

Milan Horáček

* 1946

Sudeten Germans, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Politician, Human Rights Defender, Environmentalist and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Josef Hořák, photograph from his personal prison file, probably in 1953.

Josef Hořák

* 1933

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Member of an Illegal Church, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Daňa Horáková during her studies at Union Theological Seminary

Daňa Horáková

* 1947

Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Charter 77 signatory, Writer, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

František Horký aged 26

František Horký

* 1955

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Anti-communist rebel

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

Zdenek Hostasa (1955)

Zdeněk Hostaša

* 1935

Anti-communist rebel, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

Jiří Housar in 1949

Dr. Jiří Housar

* 1921 †︎ 2015

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Forced labour during the WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts

Hovorka in 1950

Jiří Hovorka

* 1930 †︎ 2014

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relatives of important personalities

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 3 more anniversaries

Zdena Hraběová, a portrait

Zdenka Hraběová

* 1930 †︎ unknown

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

The signatories of Charter 77 and friends - from the left Karel Duda - unjustly accused for sending poisoned letters to officials, and is no longer alive. Petr Hrach in the middle and Václav Luhan on the right, who was forced to leave the former Czechoslovakia to Austria in the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of the secret police ASANACE event.

Petr Hrach

* 1955 †︎ 2022

Dissident, The underground, Anti-communist rebel

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Hradec 2016

Vladimír Hradec

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Odbojová skupina bratří Mašínů, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia

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