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Photography from the army

Miloš Jakac

* 1933

Croatia, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing

1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split

Jacek Jakubiec in 2025

Mgr. Ing. Jacek Jakubiec

* 1943

Poland, Environmentalist

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

The memoirist, together with her grandchild, shortly after the death of her husband, therefore has a black scarf tied on her head to express her sadness, 1989

Amálie Jakubovská

* 1940

Romania, Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Photographs from graduation photo board, 1973

Miloš Janáček

* 1954

Austria, Emigrant, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Ing. Vladislav Jandjuk

* 1969

Belarus, Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities and 1 more categories

Nana Janelidze, 2023

Nana Janelidze ნანა ჯანელიძე

* 1955

Georgia, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The witness as a young man

Walter Jank

* 1944

Germany, Sudeten Germans

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Portrait photography of Igor Janke in 2022. Photo by Gosia Kawka-Piotrowska.

Igor Janke

* 1967

Poland

Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Hanna Petrivna Jankovska, a portrait

Hanna Petrivna Jankovska

* 1939

Ukraine, National minorities, Repatriated, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Ludmila Janků in 1936 in Volyn, Ukraine

Ludmila Janků

* 1933

Ukraine, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of forced relocation, Repatriated, Volhynian Czechs

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

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