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In the 1950s

PhDr. Dušan Sedláček

* 1934

Diplomat, Historian, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Josef Škrábek

Josef Škrábek

* 1928 †︎ 2023

Historian, Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Writer and 4 more categories

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Ladislav in childhood

Mgr. Ladislav Smejkal

* 1946

Historian

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ondřej Soukup as a student of the Moscow History and Archive Institute, Moscow, 1988

Ondřej Soukup

* 1971

Ukraine, Russia, Historian, Journalist

Perestroika, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Jaroslav Špaček, 20 years old

Jaroslav Špaček

* 1943

Historian, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

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

Marie Špačková

Mgr. Marie Špačková

* 1946

Historian, Memory of vanished settlements, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r and 2 more anniversaries

Daniela Spenser, 1966

Daniela Spenser Ph.D.

* 1948

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Historian, Holocaust and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Lubomír Sršeň in 1967.

PhDr. Lubomír Sršeň

* 1949

Historian, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Dagmar Stará, before the war

Mgr. Dagmar Stará

* 1928

Historian, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Veselín Starčevič 1945

PhDr. Veselín Starčevič

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Historian, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, The Partisan, Participant in antifascist resistance and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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