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Hanisch František 1980

František Hanisch

* 1928 †︎ 2014

Emigrant, Czech minority in the former USSR, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Border Guards, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Bohumil Harmonický in 2024

Bohumil Harmonický

* 1963

Human Rights Defender, Dissident, Border Guards, Politician, Anti-communist rebel and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

From border guard to transferrer

Josef Hasil

* 1924 †︎ 2019

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Czech community in the US and 13 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Josef Hlava in 2021

Josef Hlava

* 1958

Czech community in the US, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Border Guards, The Sportsmen

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

In the army, 1956

Ing. Lubomír Hluštík

* 1935

Border Guards, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Antonín Hnilička

Antonín Hnilička

* 1927

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Underage political prisoners, Border Guards, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Viktor Hnízdil

Viktor Hnízdil

* 1928

Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands and 2 more anniversaries

Gerhard Hoch

Gerhard Hoch

* 1940

Germany, Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Vladimír Hokr (2018)

Vladimír Hokr

* 1976

Historian, Border Guards, Politician, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Antonín Holub during his military service, 1967-1969

Antonín Holub

* 1948

Border Guards, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner

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

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