Art and censorship | Memory of Nations

Eva Seidlová

* 1948

Hungary, Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945 and 13 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 18 more anniversaries

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Miloš Šejn

* 1947

Art and censorship

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

Jan Sekal

* 1948

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Oldřich Selucký, 1970s

Mgr. Oldřich Selucký

* 1955

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Z. Šesták in 1950

Zdeněk Šesták

* 1925

Forced labour during the WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 7 more anniversaries

Michal Sevruk during his studies at the Academy of Music, 1976

Michal Sevruk

* 1950

Volhynian Czechs, Art and censorship

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Arjana Shameti in 2024

Mgr. Arjana Shameti

* 1959

Foreigner living in Czechoslovakia before the year 1989, Art and censorship, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Karol Sidon

Rabbi Karol Sidon

* 1942

Representative of the Church, Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, A cultural celebrity, National minorities and 8 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Jiří Šigut at the military service in 1951

Jiří Šigut

* 1929

Journalist, Art and censorship

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

Contemporary photograph by Jiří Šigut taken around the year 2000

Jiří Šigut

* 1960

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

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

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