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Before graduation, 1948

MUDr. Věra Hřibová

* 1931

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war and 10 more anniversaries

František Hron, as a child at the age of 3

František Hron

* 1953

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

Hanuš Hron during recording

Ing. Hanuš Hron

* 1925 †︎ 2023

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 1 more anniversaries

Ludmila Kočková, later Hronová, at the age of 17

Ludmila Hronová

* 1958

Member of an Illegal Church, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

Vlastimil Hrůša in 2022

Vlastimil Hrůša

* 1931 †︎ 2024

Boy Scouts, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Zdeněk Hruška

Zdeněk Hruška

* 1922

Boy Scouts

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

contemporary photo

Ing. Václav Hrůza

* 1931 †︎ 2024

Diplomat, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hubačka-photo from prison

Pavel Hubačka

* 1925 †︎ 2016

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth

Oldřich Hukal in his lieutenant uniform, 1959

Ing., Colonel Oldřich Hukal

* 1937

Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Boy Scouts, Sokol

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miroslav Hůla in 2019

Miroslav Hůla

* 1933

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

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