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Bohumil Svoboda

PhDr. Bohumil Svoboda

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Member of an Illegal Church, Journalist, Politician, Writer, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 3 more categories

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Portrait

MUDr. Peter Tatár

* 1953

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava

High school graduate

M.A.,M.Sc.,Ph.D. Dušan Tříska

* 1946

Politician, A secret police collaborator, Scientist, University professor, A secret police agent

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jiří Trmač 1960s

Ing. Jiří Trmač

* 1949

Literature in exile, Politician, Scientist, A secret police agent

older photograph

Ing. Petr Uhl

* 1941 †︎ 2021

Dissident, Journalist, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Politician, Charter 77 signatory and 1 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial and 4 more anniversaries

Božena Kubáňová, aunt of Alice Uhlářová, WWII resistance member. 1940's

Alice Uhlářová

* 1958

Relatives of important personalities, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Urban orez.jpg (historic)

PhDr. Jan Urban

* 1951

Dissident, Journalist, Déclassé, Politician, Radio Free Europe and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Contemporary photograph from The Beggar's Opera staged by the Lužany theatre group, 1988.

Oldřich Váca

* 1952 †︎ 2021

Politician, Sudeten Germans, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Vácha

František Vácha

* 1942

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jiří Vaníček in 2011

Doc. RNDr. Jiří Vaníček , CSc.

* 1944

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty and 6 more anniversaries

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