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Period photograph from the war period

Ivo Medek

* 1936

Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Artists and 1 more categories

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Jaromír Mergl in his youth

Jaromír Mergl

* 1962

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Vladimír Merta in eightees

Vladimír Merta

* 1946

Dissident, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, A cultural celebrity

16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Mikloško

František Mikloško

* 1947

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 3 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks and 4 more anniversaries

Antonín Mikšík - 1985

Antonín Mikšík

* 1960

Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Jarmila Mikulášková at graduation in 1964

Jarmila Mikulášková

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death and 2 more anniversaries

Studies, 1962

Karel Miler

* 1940

A cultural celebrity, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Vladimír Mišík

Vladimír Mišík

* 1947

A cultural celebrity, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

František Miška (1925-26)

František Miška

* 1919 †︎ 2017

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, National minorities, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Zuzana Mistríková

* 1967

Politician, Relatives of important personalities, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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