Life along the Iron Curtain | Memory of Nations

Vladimír Nadrchal in the second half of the 1950s in the jersey of Red Star Brno

Vladimír Nadrchal

* 1938

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Věra Náhlíková's ID photo (1980s)

Věra Náhlíková

* 1958

Journalist, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 1 more categories

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime and 4 more anniversaries

Václav Nedomanský enjoying a goal for the national team in the early 1970s

Václav Nedomanský

* 1944

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Bronislava Nedvědová, 1968 Kadaň

Bronislava Nedvědová

* 1950

Politician, Industrial settler in border region in 60', Life along the Iron Curtain

14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 4 more anniversaries

Jiří Němeček at the army in 1969/70

Professor, Ing., CSc. Jiří Němeček

* 1947

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Vítězslava Neubauerová in the year 2021

Mgr. Vítězslava Neubauerová

* 1945

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Israeli Opera, 2000

Mgr. Serguei Nikitine

* 1961

Russia, Emigrant, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

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Liselotte Nováková

* 1915 †︎ 2016

Life along the Iron Curtain

The witness in Ostroh, Volhynia, 1943

Soňa Nováková

* 1936

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Volhynian Czechs, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Life along the Iron Curtain

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Bow company SALDO, founded 1997, Luby

Jarmila Odlasová

* 1943

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer, Life along the Iron Curtain

1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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