Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR) | Memory of Nations

Joseph as a student

Josef Dufek

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 5 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 6 more anniversaries

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Karel Dufek

* 1916 †︎ 2009

International Brigadiers, Communist official, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Veteran of WW2, western front

20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Contemporary photography

František Ďulík

* 1931 †︎ unknown

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

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

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Cyril Ďurica

* 1931

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Eva Dušková

Eva Dušková

* 1931 †︎ 2019

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Hana in Mr. Hilger´s photoatelier

Hana Dvořáková

* 1930 †︎ 2017

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Sokol, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

A Portrait of Hugo Engelhart on the Day of His Marriage

Hugo Engelhart

* 1926 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , Battle of the Bulge, 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest and 8 more anniversaries

Karel Exner, 1939

Karel Exner

* 1920 †︎ 2022

Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Jaroslav Fabok

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 3 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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Libuše Fajkošová

* 1925

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Sudeten Germans, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Veteran of WW2, western front and 1 more categories

5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area

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