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František Šotola

pastor František Šotola

* 1928 †︎ 2017

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Catholic clerical

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Soukop during military service with the PTP, 1950s

Jan Soukop

* 1931

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Farmer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Miroslav Soukup 1946

Miroslav Soukup

* 1928

Member of Orel, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel and 3 more categories

9 May 1945 - 11 May 1945 Battle of Milin, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Josef Spáčil in military uniform of the PTP (Auxilliary Technical Batallions), 1951

Josef Spáčil

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

As a young man

Antonín Španinger

* 1926 †︎ 2010

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), The Sportsmen

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

"After Sokol, I started to visit Boy Scout." 1939

Otto Šplíchal

* 1929

Bata school Graduate, Relatives of important personalities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

Jan Staša

Mgr. Jan Staša

* 1926 †︎ 2014

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Milan Štěpánek

* 1929

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák

Zdenek Sternberg as a young man

Hrabě Zdeněk Sternberg

* 1923 †︎ 2021

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, Studentské pochody na Pražský hrad

Jaromir Stojan (*1929)

Jaromír Stojan

* 1929

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

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