Palach Week | Memory of Nations

On Sunday, 15 January 1989, representatives of independent initiatives attempted to honour the memory of Jan Palach on Wenceslas Square. The then security forces brutally intervened against them and all those present. Further demonstrations followed, again brutally repressed.

Jana Krutilová, mid 1960s

Jana Krutilová

* 1953

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Death marches 1944-1945, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 4 more anniversaries

Vojmír Kubíček 2019

Vojmír Kubíček

* 1963

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Palach Week

Ilja Květoň in the 1980s

Ilja Květoň

* 1955

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel, The underground, Life along the Iron Curtain

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

In a production of The Wax Figurine, photo by Studio Ypsilon

Jiří Lábus

* 1950

Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, Palach Week, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

René Levínský

Ing. René Levínský Ph.D.

* 1970

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Milan Linhart, 1980s

Milan Linhart

* 1953

Dissident, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

David Litvák, grammar school pupil

David Litvák

* 1967

Anti-communist rebel, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r

Miroslav Machotka, photo for the Host magazine, 2000

Ing. Miroslav Machotka

* 1946

Relatives of important personalities, Radio Free Europe, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 31. 10. 1967 – Spontaneous student demonstration in Prague, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral and 3 more anniversaries

Lenka Makovcova Demartini with her daughter Sofia (b. 1987)

ThLic. Mgr. Lenka Makovcová Demartini , Ph.D.

* 1964

Anti-communist rebel, Nobility, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Dissident

Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Petr Mamula, early 1960s.

Petr Mamula

* 1957

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

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