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René Roubíček

René Roubíček

* 1922 †︎ 2018

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, A cultural celebrity, Artists

17.4.-19.11. 1958 - EXPO 58

Eva Roubickova born Mändel after the war

Eva Roubíčková

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Theresienstadt Ghetto

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Blahoslav at the time of his bookbinding apprenticeship, 1976

Doc. MgA., PhD. Blahoslav Rozbořil

* 1959

Writer, Artists, A cultural celebrity

Chanan Rozen in 2008

Chanan Rozen

* 1918 †︎ 2013

Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Diplomat

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Konstantin Ruchadze in the late 1960s or early 1970s

Konstantin Ruchadze

* 1950

A cultural celebrity, National minorities, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Georgia

19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Josef Ruszelák in 2016 in front of his painting Hostýnské nebe

Josef Ruszelák

* 1938

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Lev Rybalkin in 1976

Lev Rybalkin

* 1952

Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain, Russia

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Period portrait of Jan Ságl, mid-1960s

Jan Ságl

* 1942

The Plastic People of the Universe, Emigrant, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Šalamoun

Jiří Šalamoun

* 1935 †︎ 2022

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Marta Sandtnerová

Marta Sandtnerová

* 1929

Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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