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Abraham Pressburger and his wife

Abraham Pressburger

* 1924 †︎ 2018

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Current photo of Irena Príkopská Macsiczová, number two.

Irena Príkopská Macsiczová

* 1931

Hungary, Apatrida - osoba bez státního občanství, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945 and 2 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Miroslav Procházka

Miroslav Procházka

* 1928

Emigrant, Agent of the western secret services (cold war)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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

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

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