Déclassé | Memory of Nations

Marie Mannová in 1987

Marie Mannová

* 1944

Déclassé, Sokol, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Seventeen-year-old Petr R. Manoušek in the bell shop in Zbraslav, 1974

Petr Rudolf Manoušek

* 1957

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jindřich Marek in a wedding photo from 1964 with his wife Libuše

Jindřich Marek

* 1941 †︎ 2024

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Déclassé, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

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

During WWII in Baběnice by Prague

Ing. Milan Mátl

* 1935

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé and 2 more categories

The liberation of the city of Wiena, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 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 and 6 more anniversaries

Vladimír Matoušek, 1940s

Ing., Arch. Vladimír Matoušek

* 1921

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Déclassé and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ján Medviď during recording in 2023

Ján Medviď

* 1946

Poland, Emigrant, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé and 8 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 11 more anniversaries

Katalin Mester in 1956 in Orosháza

Katalin Mester

* 1944

Hungary, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Déclassé

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Milan Michalica in 2022

Colonel (ret.) Mgr. Milan Michalica

* 1937

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Déclassé, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Marie Mikulenková, 1948

Marie Mikulenková

* 1927

Déclassé, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 5 more anniversaries

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