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Karol Noskovič dobové foto

Karol Noskovič

* 1933 †︎ 2011

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 1 more categories

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

Karel Nováček (between 1950 and 1953)

Karel Nováček

* 1929 †︎ 2022

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Jiří Novák - portrait

Jiří Novák

* 1937

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Richard Novák during the interview in 2012

Mgr. Richard Novák

* 1930

Representative of the Church, National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Non-Catholic clerical and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

Rostislav Novotny aged 17

Rostislav Novotný

* 1928 †︎ 2014

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Volhynian Czechs, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Red Army soldier, Czech minority in the former USSR and 2 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Štefan Ondirko - photography from the period of military service in PTP units (1951)

Štefan Ondirko

* 1928

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

Bernard Pánči_dobová.jpeg (historic)

Bernard Pánči

* 1922

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty

In front of the family house in scout costume after the restoration of scouting, 1945

Milan Kryšpín Panoch

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Boy Scouts

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Period photo of the witness

Ing. Miloš Panýr

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

P. Parkán young

Pavel Parkán

* 1932

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Non-Catholic clerical

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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