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Josef Musil in 2019

Colonel Josef Musil

* 1940 †︎ 2021

Déclassé, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, 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, 6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Irena Musilová, back then Culková

Irena Musilová

* 1937

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Václav Myslivec in forestry uniform in 1967

Václav Myslivec

* 1949

Environmentalist, 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

Jiří Nachtigall in 1960s

Jiří Nachtigall

* 1942

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Fawad Nadri shortly after his arrival in Czechoslovakia in 1985

Fawad Nadri

* 1968

Foreigner living in Czechoslovakia before the year 1989

1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu

Jolyon Naegele during his first trip to Czechoslovakia (1973)

Jolyon Arthur Naegele

* 1955

Foreigner living in Czechoslovakia before the year 1989, United States of America, Journalist, Radio Free Europe, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War and 1 more anniversaries

Vlasta Najmanová, 2024

Vlasta Najmanová

* 1939

Russia, Czech minority in the former USSR, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1936 - 1938 - Great Terror in the USSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Ota Nalezinek

Ota Nalezinek

* 1930

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Artists

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Karel Navrátil, Prague, 2025

Karel Kryštof Navrátil

* 1952

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Boris Navrátil in 1942.

Boris Navrátil

* 1927 †︎ 2023

Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

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