Life along the Iron Curtain

On the way across the lake in Togo

Václav Chabr

* 1943

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Marie Chaloupská_dobový portrét_na vysku.jpg (historic)

RNDr. Marie Chaloupská, roz. Kašparová

* 1933 †︎ 2020

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Chlup in a military uniform

František Chlup

* 1934

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Historic portrait photo

Silvestra Chnápková

* 1954

Dissident, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Charter 77 signatory, Art and censorship, The underground and 2 more categories

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

Josef Chrástka in 1959 when first on duty as an engine driver, Volary

Josef Chrástka

* 1940

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

23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Květoslava Chřibková, school-leaving photo, 1956

Květoslava Chřibková

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

Marie Čiháková, 2023

Marie Čiháková

* 1953

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Karel Cudlín

Doc. Karel Cudlín

* 1960

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa

Period photography of Vladimír Czumalo, 1982

PhDr. Vladimír Czumalo , CSc.

* 1954 †︎ 2024

Historian, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, University professor and 1 more categories

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Damborská

* 1927

Member of Orel, Illegal border crossing, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 5 more anniversaries

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