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František Jankovský at the military service

František Jankovský

* 1947

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Border Guards

1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ivan Ježek – dobove foto.JPG (historic)

Ing. Ivan Ježek

* 1936

Relatives of important personalities, Sokol, Border Guards

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Jícha - soldier of basic service - in uniform of the Border Guard in 1979

Major Jiří Jícha

* 1957

Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain, Historian and 1 more categories

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

Jindřiška Jirsová in 2021

PaedDr. Jindřiška Jirsová

* 1933 †︎ 2025

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

At the aviation day in Hradec Králové, Jiří Jogl and Pavel Špilka won the joint top prize (probably 1998)

Jiří Jogl

* 1953

Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Josef Kadlčík

Josef Kadlčík

* 1939

Border Guards

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Karel Kalista, 2012

Ing., Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Karel Kalista

* 1954

Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše

Oldřich Kalousek 2014

Oldřich Kalousek

* 1933

Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Jiří Kašlík at the military service, 1968, Tři Sekery near Mariánské Lázně

Jiří Kašlík

* 1949

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, Relative of a political prisoner, 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

Ladislav Kilián

Colonel (ret.) Ladislav Kilián

* 1922 †︎ 2006

Czech minority in the former USSR, Border Guards, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass

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