Stories of the 20th Century TV

Post Bellum / Hlavní město Praha / Česká televize

The recordings were taken on two movie cameras in a mobile TV studio, using the Eye Direct technology.

Copyright description

----

Petr Štěpán in 2019

Petr Štěpán

* 1950

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, 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, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Her parents in 1945

Eva Štěpánková

* 1948

Communist official, National minorities, Déclassé, Relative of a political prisoner

20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Daniela Štěpánová in 2020

Daniela Štěpánová

* 1934

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marietta Štěpánová in 2024

MUDr. Marietta Štěpánová

* 1941

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Jiří Štěpnička, a portrait

Jiří Štěpnička

* 1947

Relative of a political prisoner, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

contemporary photo

Marie Stiborová roz. Slouková

* 1932 †︎ 2022

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Václav Stieber in 2020

Václav Stieber

* 1936

Lawyer, Illegal border crossing, Relative of a political prisoner

26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Stingl as a boy at the swimming pool in Hraničná

Prof. MUDr., CSc. Josef Stingl

* 1940

Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Border Guards, Memory of vanished settlements

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

Jiří Stivín in the late 1940s

Jiří Stivín

* 1942

Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

Josef Štogr in 2023

Josef Štogr

* 1957

Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Statistics: 20770 Witnesses the Database; 11669 Witness Stories; 21372 Registered Researchers; 173585 Photos; 69030 Clips