Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

Portrét dobový.jpg (historic)

Miloslava Smolíková

* 1927 †︎ 2021

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Forced labour during the WW2, Déclassé, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 22 more anniversaries

Vasil Timkovič shortly after the war

Vasil Timkovič

* 1923 †︎ 2023

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR

Vladislav Trampota, a portrait

Vladislav Trampota

* 1932

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Václav Tymočko in 2021

Václav Tymočko

* 1928 †︎ 2024

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Picture of a young soldier

František Vaczula

* 1929

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Victim of forced relocation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Martin Věchet during filming

Martin Věchet

* 1964

Dissident, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , The underground, A cultural celebrity

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

Richard Vyškovský, 2016.

Richard Vyškovský

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Sokol, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 5 more categories

9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty, 1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 9 more anniversaries

Radislav in the young years

Radislav Wagner

* 1932

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Thomas Wieske in GDR prison

Professor, Dr. Thomas Wieske

* 1958

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , The ransom of political prisoners in the GDR, University professor, Political prisoner in the GDR, East German Refugee and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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