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Vlastimil Hort as a little boy - already with a chessboard

Vlastimil Hort

* 1944 †︎ 2025

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

Jiří Hřebec (left) and Pavel Hut'ka, finalists of the junior Galeo Cup in 1969. The International Gale Cup was then played by the best youth teams in Europe under the age of 20, Czechoslovakia lost to Spain 2:3

Jiří Hřebec

* 1950

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Jiří Hřebík in scouts' uniform

Jiří Hřebík

* 1965

Boy Scouts, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vlastimil Hrůša in 2022

Vlastimil Hrůša

* 1931 †︎ 2024

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

In the new gym in Petrovice, 2000

Petr Hubáček

* 1949

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness as a member of the team VSŽ Košice in the year 1981

Miroslav Ihnačák

* 1962

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Libuše Jahodová in 1951

Libuše Jahodová

* 1941

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

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Petr Janečka in the national team jersey at the beginning of the 1980s

Petr Janečka

* 1957

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

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Janíček as a leader of a scout troop in Nové Město na Moravě in the 1990s

Jiří Janíček

* 1941

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

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Bohumil Janoušek in 1971 in London during training of his charges on the Thames River

Bohumil Janoušek

* 1937

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

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