Dissident | Memory of Nations

Karel Mráz telling his story for the Post Bellum project The Stories of Our Neighbours

Mgr. Karel Mráz

* 1936 †︎ 2024

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Dissident, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans) and 5 more anniversaries

The witness during an arrest by State Security in Prague at the U Holečků restaurant during the 4th Charter Forum

Karel Mrázek

* 1957

Dissident, Journalist, Charter 77 signatory, Art and censorship, The underground and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted

Michal Mrtvy on historical photography

Michal Mrtvý

* 1964

Dissident, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jana Müllerová in 1981

Jana Müllerová

* 1949

Dissident, Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground

31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral and 2 more anniversaries

Kyra Munk Matuštík as an about 20 years old girl

Kyra Munk Matuštík

* 1959

Charter 77 signatory, Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Mustelier Carmen Julia

Carmen Julia Mustelier

* 1964

Cuba, Dissident, Emigrant, Cuban Dissident, Cuban Exile and 3 more categories

Cuba after 1959

Vladimír Muzička (archive)

Vladimír Muzička

* 1953

Anti-communist rebel, Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, The underground, Member of an Illegal Church and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

18-year-old Andrea Nikolits

Andrea Nádasdy Nikolits

* 1933

Hungary, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Petr Náhlík probably at the age of eighteen

Ing. Petr Náhlík

* 1961

Journalist, Politician, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Navarro during the recording in Cuba, 2018

Félix Navarro Rodríguez

* 1953

Cuba, Dissident, Cuban Dissident, Cuban Educator, Cuban Political Prisoner and 1 more categories

Black Spring of Cuba 2003, Cuba after 1959, Execution of General Ochoa, Special Period in Cuba, Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)

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