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Karel Dufek

* 1916 †︎ 2009

International Brigadiers, Communist official, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Veteran of WW2, western front

20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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Olga Dufková

* 1940

Czech minority in the former USSR, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death

Portrait of Eleonora Dujková

Eleonora Dujková

* 1929 †︎ 2018

Relative of a political prisoner, Déclassé

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

Dominik Duka in his youth

cardinal Jaroslav Dominik Duka

* 1943 †︎ 2025

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical and 7 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

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František Ďulík

* 1931 †︎ unknown

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Vladimír Dundr, 2025

Vladimír Dundr

* 1959

Environmentalist, Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

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Cyril Ďurica

* 1931

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Jaromír Dus, portrait, Prague 1957

Mgr. Jaromír Dus

* 1938

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Non-Catholic clerical, Vicar without State agreement

16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

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Jan Dušek

* 1922

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Holocaust

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Josef Dušek

* 1941

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

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