Austria

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Contemporary witnesses from Austria

Johannes Gutmann in 2022

Johannes Gutmann

* 1965

Austria, Environmentalist

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Eva Horová, Oustworn laboratory, r. 1973

Eva Horová

* 1943

Austria, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Boy Scouts, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

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, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 2 more anniversaries

Annemarie Kury, a portrait

Annemarie Kury

* 1932

Austria, National minorities, Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Tamás Lukách

Tamás Lukách

* 1923 †︎ 2000

Austria, Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Jan Meixner during the filming on 6 August 2020 in Staré Hobzí

Jan Meixner

* 1925

Austria, Sudeten Germans, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Wehrmacht soldier

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Ernst Pollmann in 1980s

Ernst Pollmann

* 1933

Austria, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Karl Schwarz

Karl Schwarz

* 1968

Austria, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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