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Ilja Bílek, 1990s

Doc. academic painter Ilja Bílek

* 1948

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, University professor, Artists, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17.4.-19.11. 1958 - EXPO 58

Magdalena Bílková Tůmová 1986

Magdaléna Bílková Tůmová

* 1950

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Ivan Binar

Ivan Binar

* 1942

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Journalist, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Radio Free Europe and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

The witness is painting Ještěd, around 1949

Otakar Binar

* 1931 †︎ 2024

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé, Boy Scouts, Sudeten Germans, Art and censorship and 3 more categories

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Václav Blabolil with his family, circa 1959

Václav Blabolil

* 1958

Charter 77 signatory, Art and censorship, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Václav Bláha

Václav Bláha

* 1949

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Dagmar Bláhová, Prague, 1970s

Dagmar Bláhová

* 1949

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

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

Michal Blažek (2015)

Michal Blažek

* 1955 †︎ 2025

Art and censorship, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

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

Hynek Bočan - director, filming of Private Whirlwind (Soukromá vichřice), 1960s

Hynek Bočan

* 1938

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Svatoslav Böhm / probably 1970s

Svatoslav Böhm

* 1934 †︎ 2023

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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

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