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Josef Olšanský during recording, 2025

Josef Olšanský

* 1951

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Anti-communist rebel, Charter 77 signatory and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

In 1952 in Prague

Ing. Tomáš Oráč roz. Offenberg

* 1928

Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hidden people

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 1 more anniversaries

Bálint Ordódy in Visegrád

Bálint Ordódy

* 1931

Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Emigrant, Déclassé, Radio Free Europe

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 1946-1949 nationalization of private enterprises and institutions in Hungary, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Paul Ort during an expedition in the Amazon, 1962

MUDr. Professor, MUDr. Paul Ort

* 1936

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Political prisoner in WW2 and 7 more categories

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Robert Ospald, a portrait from the time of the escape

Robert Ospald

* 1951

Emigrant, Sudeten Germans, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

Österreicher Leo

Captain (ret.) Leo Österreicher

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Every child on the train had its ID card. Eva had the number 639.

Eva Paddock

* 1935

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Winton’s Children

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Helena Paessler in 1973

Helena Paessler

* 1953

Supporter of Czechoslovak dissent from a western country, Germany, Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 7 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hana Palcová, USA 1968

Hana Palcová

* 1946

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Gypsies / Roma and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 4 more anniversaries

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Vladimír Paleček

* 1924 †︎ 2012

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Veteran of WW2, western front

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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