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Karel Kalvach

Karel Kalvach

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Non-Catholic clerical and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Zoran Kamarit

* 1925

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Czech minority in the Serbia, Czechoslovak school in Beograd, National minorities, The Partisan and 6 more categories

9. 10. 1934 - Atentát na jugoslávského krále Alexandra I. , 24. 3. – 10. 6. 1999 - NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 6. 4. - 17. 4. 1941 Dubnová válka (Německý útok na Jugoslávii) , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Václav Kaňka in 1959

Václav Kaňka

* 1938 †︎ 2025

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 5 more anniversaries

Miroslav Karmazin-Pin

Miroslav Karmazin

* 1934

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

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Ladislav Kavka in 1950

Ladislav Kavka

* 1926

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 2 more anniversaries

Věra Kazdová in 1939

Věra Kazdová

* 1921

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

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague and 4 more anniversaries

Photo of Václav Kefurt

Václav Kefurt

* 1934 †︎ 2022

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

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 7 more anniversaries

Milan Kejzlar as a boy (in 1939)

Professor Ing. Milan Kejzlar CSc.

* 1928

Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

Ondrej Kizek (1947) - photo from college

Ondrej Kizek

* 1926

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Dissident, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Member of an Illegal Church and 3 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

Luděk Kleandr

Luděk Kleandr

* 1924 †︎ 2019

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat

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