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Jaroslav Proche 2002

Jaroslav Proche

* 1942

Charter 77 signatory, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Jiří Prokop in 1991, holding a letter written in Hebrew, photographed in Šmeral's factory

Jiří Prokop

* 1946

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Milan Prokop shortly after his emigration to Germany, 1968

Milan Prokop

* 1945

Germany, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Miriam Prokopová in 2020

Miriam Prokopová

* 1963

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Forced labour during the WW2, Relatives of important personalities and 4 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ondřej Průcha

Ondřej Průcha

* 1954

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Repatriated, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Prusalis Epanastatis

Epanastatis Prusalis

* 1948 †︎ 2016

Greece, Emigrant, National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 24. 3. – 10. 6. 1999 - NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

Ileana Puig, 2021

Ileana Puig

* 1937

Cuba, Emigrant, Cuban Dissident, Cuban Exile, Cuban Political Prisoner and 2 more categories

Sotirios Pupakis

Ing. Sotirios Pupakis

* 1935

Greece, Emigrant, National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia

28.10.194 - 23.4.1941 Greek- Italian war, 6.4. - 23.4.1941 Battle of Greece, 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Dimitri Rafalský 2017

Dimitri Rafalský

* 1930 †︎ 2021

Emigrant, National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Emigrants from Russia, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Rambousek Otakar 1949 - 1964

Otakar Rambousek

* 1923 †︎ 2010

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant and 6 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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