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Miloš Blažek

Miloš Blažek

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Legio Angelica (scouts), Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Miroslav Blažek, 5 years old, Nová Paka, 1971

Miroslav Blažek

* 1966

Member of an Illegal Church, Communist official, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

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Václav Blažek

* 1920

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Forced labour during the WW2

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

Jan Blažíček

Jan Blažíček

* 1928

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

Wedding of Marie and Albín Blažek, 1st of October,1960

Marie Blažková

* 1938 †︎ 2023

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

Taťána Blažková, née Wiesnerová, born 1947

Taťána Blažková

* 1947

Déclassé, Relative of a political prisoner, Nobility, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, former Yugoslavia and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jozef Bobalik

Jozef Bobalik

* 1928 †︎ 2021

Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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Jarmila Bočánková

* 1931 †︎ 2025

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness as a student at the University of Brno, 2nd half of the 1960s

Tomáš Bochořák

* 1948

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ivana Bočková as a young woman

Ivana Bočková

* 1946

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

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

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