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.

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In a Sokol movement costume, 1946

Ing. arch. Jiří Merger

* 1940

Russia, National minorities, Emigrants from Russia

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Václav Merhaut, recording for Memory of Nations, Pilsen, December 2023

Václav Merhaut

* 1951

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Farmer

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Emilie Slavomíra Měříčková

Emilie Slavomíra Měřičková

* 1930

Member of an Illegal Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Friars, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Merta in eightees

Vladimír Merta

* 1946

Dissident, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, A cultural celebrity

16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Měšt'ák in 2022

Doc. MUDr. Jan Měšťák , CSc.

* 1944

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Cut-out from an archival photo of Václav Mezřický

Doc.,JUDr. Václav Mezřický

* 1934 †︎ 2018

Boy Scouts, Lawyer, Environmentalist, University professor

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Vladimír Michálek in 2022

Vladimír Michálek

* 1956

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

Portrait

Naděžda Mihalovičová

* 1928 †︎ 2023

Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Jiří Mikeš in 2019

Ing., Mgr. Jiří Mikeš

* 1942

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

Lisa Miková, 1940

Lisa Miková

* 1922 †︎ 2022

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Political prisoner in WW2, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 1 more categories

13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

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