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Jaroslav Eliáš in childhood, 1940s

Jaroslav Eliáš

* 1940 †︎ 2025

Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, A cultural celebrity

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Luděk Eliáš in 1946

Luděk Eliáš

* 1923 †︎ 2018

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Irena Eliášová

* 1953

A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Writer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Erdélyi Ágnes

Ágnes Erdélyi

* 1944

Hungary, Victim of the political police in Hungary, Charter 77 signatory, A cultural celebrity

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1989 - Transition in Hungary

Ladislav Faktor, 1975

JUDr. Ladislav Faktor

* 1957

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Gila Fatran 2015

Gila Fatran

* 1929

A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 3 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia) and 1 more anniversaries

Ivo Feierabend

Ivo Feierabend

* 1927

Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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Cristina Feijóo

* 1944

Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Writer, Peronist Armed Forces (FAP), Argentina

National Reorganization Process , Falkland war

Rudolf Felzmann as a teacher in the reform school in Chrastava (1959)

Rudolf Felzmann

* 1941

A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Relatives of important personalities, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Dalibor Fencl in 1995

Dalibor Fencl

* 1966

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, A cultural celebrity, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia

Perestroika, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

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