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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

Jan David in a graduation photo in 1958

Ing. Jan David

* 1940

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Kateřina Dejmal portrait from youth

Kateřina Dejmalová

* 1949

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

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

Anna Derflerová 1938.jpg (historic)

Anna Derflerová

* 1920

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Marta Dittrichová, Business Academy graduation photograph. 1942

Marta Dittrichová

* 1923 †︎ 2022

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Josef Diviš, 1962

Ing. Josef Diviš

* 1939

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

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