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Václav Konzal, 2017

Václav Konzal

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Member of an Illegal Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Friars, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 1 more categories

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

Josef Kordík in the seminary (Saints Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology)

Pater Josef Kordík

* 1948

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical and 5 more categories

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 1 more anniversaries

Vladimir Koronthály

Mgr. Vladimír Koronthály

* 1951

Member of an Illegal Church, Historian, Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Sebastián Košút

Sebastián Košút

* 1941

Representative of the Church, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical, Member of an Illegal Church and 2 more categories

1966-1969 Cultural Revolution

pětadvacetiletá Jiřina Křížková.jpg (historic)

MUDr. Jiřina Křížková

* 1925

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Juraj Krupa 1968

Juraj Krupa

* 1936

Member of an Illegal Church, Representative of the Church, Non-Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR) and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

The witness as a young boy, around the turn of the 50s and 60s

Ing. Jiří Kubík

* 1941

Member of an Illegal Church, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Svědci Jehovovi, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

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

Karel Kukačka

* 1941

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Member of an Illegal Church

Stanislava Kulová in the 1970s

Stanislava Kulová

* 1951

Clergymen, Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical, 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, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Memoir shortly after emigration, Vienna, 1977

Josef Kyska

* 1954

Member of an Illegal Church, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Writer

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

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