A cultural celebrity

31.12.1944

František Malotín

* 1929 †︎ 2021

A cultural celebrity, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Max Mannheimer

Max Mannheimer

* 1920 †︎ 2016

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Mgr. Olga Anna Markowitz

* 1949

Holocaust, The relative of a political prisoner, Writer, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Luděk Marks in the 1980s
(Photo: archive of Martin Machovec)

Luděk Marks

* 1963

The underground, Dissident, The Journalist, Charter 77 signatory, Writer and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Marta Marsinová

Marta Marsinová

* 1922

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Lubomír Martínek

Lubomír Martínek

* 1954

Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, The underground, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Miroslav Masák in 1942

Miroslav Masák

* 1932

Dissident, Déclassé, Boy Scouts, Scientist, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 3 more anniversaries

Father Václav Mašek

Monsignor Václav Mašek

* 1941

Representative of the Church, A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Czechs from Banat, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, 1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Young Matouš

Miroslav Matouš

* 1921 †︎ 2021

Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Non-Catholic clerical, Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Doc. Mgr., Ph.D. Vlastislav Matoušek

* 1948

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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