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Portrait photo II. - 2017

Jaroslav Cuhra

* 1936 †︎ 2024

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 4 more anniversaries

Before military service, around 1949

Oldřich Čunek

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Jiří Georg Čupr as a Swedish army officer

Jiří Georg Čupr

* 1943

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Relative of a political prisoner

1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Jarmila Cvrčková

* 1922 †︎ 2011

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Czernin Theobald

Theobald Czernin

* 1936 †︎ 2015

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Déclassé

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Contemporary portrait

Marie Danielová

* 1932

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Anna Daňková, rod. Kováčová

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Václav Dašek in 1955-1956

Václav Dašek

* 1949

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Anne Dastakian (2025)

Anne Dastakian

* 1959

Supporter of Czechoslovak dissent from a western country, Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, France

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Armenian Genocide

Moravský Karlov around 1910

Erich David

* 1939

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

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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