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Hubert Čížek in 2022

Ing. Hubert Čížek CSc.

* 1941

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Environmentalist, Scientist

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

Bridget Cooper, 2023

Bridget Cooper

* 1956

Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, United Kingdom

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Pavel Coufal in 2025

Pavel Coufal

* 1956

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Herta Coufalová with her brother Harry, who died in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Treblinka, 1933

Herta Coufalová

* 1926 †︎ 2018

Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Magdalena during her studies at Hollarka

Magdalena Čtrnáctová

* 1971

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Jiří Čtvrtečka in a boat

Jiří Čtvrtečka

* 1942

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, The Sportsmen, The topic of security forces before 1989

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich

As a young man

František Čuban

* 1941

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Karel Cudlín

Doc. Karel Cudlín

* 1960

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa

Jiří Georg Čupr as a Swedish army officer

Jiří Georg Čupr

* 1943

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Relative of a political prisoner

1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Hana Cuřínová on her 75th birthday (2009)

Mgr. Hana Cuřínová

* 1934

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

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