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Leopold Pospíšil, 2016

Prof. PhDr., DrSc. Leopold Pospíšil

* 1923 †︎ 2021

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, Studentské pochody na Pražský hrad

Jiří Prokop in 1991, holding a letter written in Hebrew, photographed in Šmeral's factory

Jiří Prokop

* 1946

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 4 more anniversaries

Ondřej Průcha

Ondřej Průcha

* 1954

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Repatriated, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Rambousek Otakar 1949 - 1964

Otakar Rambousek

* 1923 †︎ 2010

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant and 6 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Ervín Reisky in 2019

Ervín Reisky

* 1931

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, National minorities and 2 more categories

Friedrich Reithmeier, 1950´s

Friedrich Reithmeier

* 1936

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

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

Frank Richter as a mountaineer, Bohemian Switzerland, 1960s

Frank Richter

* 1949

Illegal border crossing, Life along the Iron Curtain, Germany

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

Nadia Rosa

* 1938

United Kingdom, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust and 14 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 19 more anniversaries

Libor Rouček, 2025

Libor Rouček

* 1954

Diplomat, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Journalist and 2 more categories

31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Helga Rügamer, Krnov 2022

Helga Rügamer

* 1944

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Germany

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

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