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Josef Ouroda during the interview

Josef Ouroda

* 1955

Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 signatory, Anti-communist rebel

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Tibor Pákh

Tibor Pákh

* 1924

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Political prisoner in the Kádár era, Anti-communist rebel

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1989 - Transition in Hungary

Milan Paumer as a member of US Army

Milan Paumer

* 1931 †︎ 2010

Anti-communist rebel, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Sokol, Odbojová skupina bratří Mašínů

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Ivana Peričková with her grandmother at a family celebration at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s

Ivana Peričková

* 1957

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Dissident, Anti-communist rebel

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jana Pešková in 2020

Jana Pešková

* 1943

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel

A historic photo of Jiřina Pešková, early 1950s

Jiřina Pešková

* 1933 †︎ unknown

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions

Alois Peyr

Alois Peyr

* 1935 †︎ 2025

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Agnesa Piasecká during EYD recording.

Agnesa Piasecká

* 1954

Clergymen, Hungary, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 8 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 13 more anniversaries

Otto Pick, 4.1.2012

Private First Class (ret.) Otto Pick

* 1925 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, A cultural celebrity, Winton’s Children and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Milan “Fred” Pištek as a “mánička” in the early 1970s

Milan Pištěk

* 1956

Déclassé, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground and 5 more categories

19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall and 1 more anniversaries

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