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Jaromíra Fassmannová

Jaromíra Fassmannová

* 1933 †︎ 2023

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jindřich Fencl at about 50 years of age

Jindřich Fencl

* 1934

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Sokol

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 10 more anniversaries

Boleslav Fiala - 1962

Boleslav Fiala

* 1929

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

At the First Holy Communion in 1941

Emil Fiala

* 1935

Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Sokol, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories and 5 more anniversaries

Ludvík Florián in 1954

Ludvík Florián

* 1936

A warder in a communist prison, Underage political prisoners, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner and 5 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Karel Franta as a boy

Karel Franta

* 1928 †︎ 2017

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists and 1 more categories

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Graduation photo of Marie Matonohová

Marie Fryblíková

* 1928

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Antonín Gajda

* 1925 †︎ unknown

Forced labour during the WW2, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 2 more anniversaries

Witness in the Sokol sports hall. 1933

Jaruše Glosová

* 1927

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 11 more anniversaries

Jan Gogola during the filming of the interview in 2019

Professor Jan Gogola

* 1944

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, University professor and 1 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 1 more anniversaries

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