Relative of a political prisoner | Memory of Nations

Margita Zimanová

Margita Zimanová

* 1942

Relative of a political prisoner, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

At young age

Radomír Žingor

* 1936

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Blanka Zmeková as a single woman

Blanka Zmeková

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Tomas Zmeskal

Tomáš Zmeškal

* 1954

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ludmila Švédová (Zouharová) - 1959

Ludmila Zouharová

* 1946

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Odbojová skupina bratří Mašínů, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Marie Žváčková in 1965

Marie Žváčková

* 1945

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Zykmundová

Marie Zykmundová

* 1953

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Yuriy Antoniak during the interview, 2023

Юрій Антоняк Yuriy Antoniak

* 1958

Ukraine, Relative of a political prisoner

The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014)

Iryna Bilyk celebrates the anniversary of Ukrainian independence in Lviv at the Centre for Children's Creativity, 1990s

Ірина Білик Iryna Bilyk

* 1952

Ukraine, Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of forced relocation

The Khrushchev Thaw 1953 – 1964, The Revival of Ukrainian national culture 1989 - 1991, Ukraine in 1990-s.

Taras Bronevych at work, Kolomyia, 2022.

Тарас Броневич Taras Bronevych

* 1946

Ukraine, Relative of a political prisoner

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, Arrests in Western Ukraine 1949-1950

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