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Lída Engelová with her brother Tomáš, National Theatre, 1970

Lída Engelová

* 1944

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marta Ernyeiová, b. 1962

Marta Ernyeiová

* 1944

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Josef Falář after finishing the air defence school in 1958

PhDr. Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Josef Falář CSc.

* 1936

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Communist official, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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 and 10 more anniversaries

A demonstration on the square in Domažlice in the week after November 17, 1989

MUDr. Hynek Faschingbauer

* 1961

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Jan Fechtner as a deck-hand in 1961

Jan Fechtner

* 1946

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Déclassé, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Nobility and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Photo from the graduating class at the Pedagogical Secondary School

Mgr. Aleš Fetters

* 1933 †︎ 2025

Boy Scouts, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Jana Fischerová, Hřebečná, 1951

Jana Fischerová

* 1941

Victim of forced relocation, Déclassé, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Wehrmacht soldier and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Marie Fišerová

Mgr. Marie Fišerová

* 1938 †︎ 2018

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

As a young man

Jiří Fisher

* 1947

Anti-communist rebel, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Journalist, Radio Free Europe and 1 more categories

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

Fojtíček Ctibor

Ctibor Fojtíček

* 1938

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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