The Sportsmen | Memory of Nations

1978

Milan Orlowski

* 1952

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Rostislav Osička

* 1956

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

František Pakandl

František Pakandl

* 1943

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Vladislav Palkovič in 2019

Vladislav Palkovič

* 1939 †︎ 2024

The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Antonín Panenka as a teenager with a trophy for the best scorer of a football tournament, 1964

Antonín Panenka

* 1948

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

Blanka Paulů at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, 1984

Mgr. Blanka Paulů

* 1954

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

As a soldier of the basic military service, 1962

Milan Pavlů

* 1939

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Writer and 5 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall and 2 more anniversaries

Marta Pechová in a Sparta jersey in the 1970s

Ing. Marta Pechová

* 1952

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

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

Zdeněk Pecka in the Eye Direct studio in Prague, 23 October 2019

Ing., Major Zdeněk Pecka

* 1954

The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Games of the XXIII Olympiad

Last carrier competition in Benecko region

Květoslava Pecková

* 1956

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

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, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

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