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Krystina Hauck und Holger Frenzel before the escape

Krystina Hauck

* 1970

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Political prisoner in the GDR, Germany, East German Refugee

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Josef Hlava in 2021

Josef Hlava

* 1958

Czech community in the US, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Border Guards, The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Milan Hlobílek in PTP

Milan Hlobílek

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Hidden people, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Sokol and 5 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Václav Hybler as a young man

Václav Hybler

* 1947

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

František Innemann in 2025

František Innemann

* 1947

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Charter 77 signatory, Political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Jelínek the musician, 1975

Josef Jelínek

* 1933

Political prisoner, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Jícha - soldier of basic service - in uniform of the Border Guard in 1979

Major Jiří Jícha

* 1957

Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain, Historian and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miloslava Kelblová in 1951

Miloslava Kelblová

* 1936

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Underage political prisoners, Relative of a political prisoner, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 2 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Jiří Kleker

Jiří Kleker

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 2 more anniversaries

Wilibald Klinger on vacation in America

Wilibald Klinger

* 1941 †︎ 2022

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Industrial settler in border region in 60', Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 5. 1945 - vypálení Javoříčka , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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