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Šimek Vojtěch

Vojtěch Šimek

* 1924

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Forced labour during the WW2, Sokol

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Otokar Simm with his parents Max and Emily in the Peace celebration near Jablonec dam in 1957

Otokar Simm

* 1946

Writer, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Pavel Šimon at one of the parties / archive of P. Šimon

Pavel Šimon

* 1964

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel, The Sportsmen, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

František Šimon and Emilie Kadavá, a wedding photo, Chleby, March 9, 1963

František Šimon

* 1933

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jaroslav Šimůnek

Jaroslav Šimůnek

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Communist official, Forced labour during the WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial and 1 more anniversaries

Passport photo

Ctibor Šindar

* 1955

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

Karel Pavlů and Miroslav Šír in Stráž, 1945

Miroslav Šír

* 1928 †︎ 2023

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Portrait former

Ing. Vlasta Šišková

* 1924

Royal Air Force, Forced labour during the WW2, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 3 more anniversaries

Jindřich Sitta in 2021

Colonel (ret.) Jindřich Sitta

* 1955

War veteran after 1989

Pavel Sivko

Pavel Sivko

* 1948

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

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