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Fleeing into the Freedom

This project concerns with stories of people who decided to cross the Iron Curtain and with the phenomenon of emigration from the communist Czechoslovakia. It´s realisation was supported from the Czech-German Fund.

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Karel Fort.jpeg (historic)

Karel Fořt

* 1921  †︎ 2014

Representative of the Church, Emigrant, Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 3 more categories
29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”
Charlie Heller, Morristown, New Jersey, 1959

PhDr. Charles Ota Heller

* 1936

Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hidden people, Déclassé and 1 more categories
1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries
Alexander Levitsky (the 1980s)

Alexander Levitsky Ph.D.

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Czech community in the US, University professor and 1 more categories
1989 - The fall of the iron curtain
University student and private of the Czechoslavak People's Army (1955)

Prof. ThDr., Th.D. Karel Skalický

* 1934

Representative of the Church, Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Catholic clerical, Writer
25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia
Tichá hrdinství

Last published

  • Aleš Březina, 2017

    Aleš Březina

    * 1948

  • Hana Ledrerová

    Hana Ledrerová

    * 1942

  • Eva Matoušková in 1948

    Eva Matoušková

    * 1929

  • Josef Malár as a priest

    Josef Malár

    * 1925  †︎ 2010

  • Jaroslav Machovský 1954

    Jaroslav Machovský

    * 1932

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