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Post Bellum / Hlavní město Praha / Česká televize

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Vlastimir Maier

Vlastimir Maier

* 1932

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Mgr. Václav Majer

* 1930

Holocaust, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Emigrants from Russia, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 3 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

Boris Malák during filming in Prague on October 20, 2023

Ing. First Lieutenant Boris Malák

* 1926 †︎ 2024

The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 2 more anniversaries

Photograph of Miroslava Malecká-Svobodová from the second half of the 1930's.

Miroslava Malecká-Svobodová

* 1923

Secret police informer, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Oliver Malina Morgenstern in the 1990s

Oliver Malina Morgenstern

* 1963

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Anti-communist rebel, The underground

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

Ivana Málková in 2020

Ivana Málková

* 1962

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

31.12.1944

František Malotín

* 1929 †︎ 2021

A cultural celebrity, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Přemysl Malý, graduation photo, Prague, 1964

Ing. Přemysl Malý

* 1945 †︎ 2023

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Photo from his student years

Václav Malý

* 1950

Dissident, Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted

Vítězslav Malý, circa 1957

Vítězslav Malý

* 1943

Relative of a political prisoner

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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