Border Guards | Memory of Nations

Tomáš Skála in the workshop

Tomáš Skála

* 1970

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Jan Sladký in 1961

Jan Sladký

* 1944

Victim of forced relocation, Border Guards, The Sportsmen, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Sudeten Germans and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Petr Slezák during his military service in the Border Guard Unit 8842 in Cheb, 1982

Petr Slezák

* 1964

Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground, Border Guards

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Miroslav Šmejkal in 2025

Miroslav Šmejkal

* 1950

Border Guards, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Jaroslav Smetana

* 1939 †︎ 2023

Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Josef Šmoldas

* 1947

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

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

Pravoslav Špoula - 1944

Pravoslav Špoula

* 1929

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Border Guards and 3 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Oldřich Stergelis in 2022

Oldřich Stergelis

* 1957

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Steun Eduard

Eduard Steun

* 1946

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Border Guards, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Stingl as a boy at the swimming pool in Hraničná

Prof. MUDr., CSc. Josef Stingl

* 1940

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Memory of vanished settlements

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

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