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Jiří Popel

* 1955

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts and 5 more categories

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

A group of scouts was entrusted with guarding German prisoners of war while filling in craters after the bombing of Pardubice airport - Vladimír Popelka, Pardubice, April 1946

Vladimír Popelka

* 1932

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

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Ihor Popovych Ігор Попович

* 1933

Ukraine, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, A victim of communist repressions in Halychyna, Boy Scouts, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Arrests in Western Ukraine 1949-1950

Jan Pořízek, graduation board of Folk Art School Blansko in 1974, subject piano

Ing. Jan Pořízek

* 1958

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Boy Scouts, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

1989 - Third renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Alena Posltová

* 1930

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, Underage political prisoners

8. - 11. 10. 1950 - Trial against F.A.Stříteský, head of the piarist dormitory in Litomyšl

Antonín Pospíšil - contemporary photo from the gymnasium.

Monsignor Antonín Pospíšil

* 1925 †︎ 2021

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák

Miroslav Pospíšil - Auxiliary Technical Battalions, Rajhrad 1952

Miroslav Pospíšil

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák and 2 more anniversaries

Milan Poul in a tankist's helmet

Milan Poul

* 1931

Boy Scouts

Jaroslava Poulová

Jaroslava Poulová

* 1936

Boy Scouts

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Jaromír Prach

Jaromír Prach

* 1947 †︎ 2025

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

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