Artists | Memory of Nations

01 - Bohumir Koubek - Young

Bohumír Koubek

* 1931 †︎ 2018

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

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Miroslav Koval, 2016

Miroslav Koval

* 1944 †︎ 2022

Relative of a political prisoner, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Artists

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Anežka Kovalová

* 1949

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship, Artists

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Jiří Kovanda, 20th birthday, Petřín 1973

Jiří Kovanda

* 1953

Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Eva Králiková in the 50s.

Eva Králiková

* 1937

Hungary, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bohuslav Kraus

* 1955

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground, Artists

18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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Pavel Kreml

* 1954

Boy Scouts, The underground, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák

Josef Kroc

* 1928 †︎ 2018

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, Border Guards, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

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Jaroslav Krušina

* 1936 †︎ 2021

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Artists

Václav Kulhánek in his youth

Ing. Václav Kulhánek

* 1942

Relatives of important personalities, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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