Illegal border crossing | Memory of Nations

During the production of the bust in the Kolín studio

František Lipenský

* 1932 †︎ 2023

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, People helping Jews during WWII, National minorities and 7 more categories

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s and 6 more anniversaries

18-years-old František Lízna, high-school graduation, city of Jevíčko

František Lízna

* 1941 †︎ 2021

Dissident, Representative of the Church, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia and 6 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Children in Nýrsko after the war (Johann with the hatchet)

Johann Löffelmann

* 1939

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Karin Macháčková, Děčín, 1961

Karin Macháčková

* 1943

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Communist official, Déclassé, Industrial settler in border region in 60' and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic and 5 more anniversaries

Jan Malášek in 2022

Jan Malášek

* 1945

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Witness of local events from the Communist era

1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975 - Vietnam War, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Mališka (left), 1950

František Mališka

* 1935 †︎ unknown

Illegal border crossing, A communist interrogator, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

02.JPG (historic)

Aldo Mantovani

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Illegal border crossing, Italy

3.9.1942 - 2.2.1943 Battle of Stalingrad

Luisa Matlová (1946)

Luisa Matlová, roz. Štýrová

* 1916 †︎ 2020

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Relatives of important personalities, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Photograph, January 2014

Manfred Matthies

* 1941

Germany, Illegal border crossing, GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR, East German Refugee and 2 more categories

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Helmut Meewes as a boy in Berlin

Helmut Meewes

* 1929

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 3 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Death marches 1944-1945

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