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Helena Faberová

Helena Faberová

* 1935

Member of an Illegal Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jan Fatka is a theologian of the 3rd year of the Roman Catholic Cyril and Methodius Theological Faculty in Litoměřice

Mgr. Jan Fatka

* 1955

Clergymen, Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical, Friars, 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

Maria like student

Mária Gondová, rod. Selinová

* 1946

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Member of an Illegal Church, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

Tomáš Halík working in 1978

Tomáš Halík

* 1948

Dissident, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Member of an Illegal Church, Anti-communist rebel and 4 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

Angelika Hanauerová

Master of Fine Arts Angelika Hanauerová

* 1943 †︎ 2019

Member of an Illegal Church, Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Witness during his studies in the theological seminary, around 1971

Monsignor Karel Herbst

* 1943

Member of an Illegal Church, Vicar without State agreement, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Friars

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Fotka z bohoslužby v Římě v kostele sv. Dona Boska, jako salesiánští studenti hráli a zpívali při jáhenském svěcení spolubratrů, je to asi z roku 1991

Ladislav Heryán

* 1960

Representative of the Church, Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Friars, The underground and 5 more categories

1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa

Josef Hořák, photograph from his personal prison file, probably in 1953.

Josef Hořák

* 1933

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Member of an Illegal Church, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Pavol Hric during EYD recording

Ing. Pavol Hric

* 1955

Member of an Illegal Church, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer and 1 more categories

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, Akce P - likvidácia gréckokatolíckej cirkvi v Československu, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Ludmila Kočková, later Hronová, at the age of 17

Ludmila Hronová

* 1958

Member of an Illegal Church, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

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