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Vladimír Dvořáček, high school graduation photograph. 1955

Vladimír Dvořáček

* 1936

Relative of a political prisoner, A secret police collaborator, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Eder, 1962

Josef Eder

* 1940

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Déclassé, Politician, A secret police collaborator, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 2 more anniversaries

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Jaroslav Fabok

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Participant in antifascist resistance, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 3 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Irena Fajmanová (1961)

Irena Fajmanová

* 1930 †︎ 2023

Relative of a political prisoner, A secret police collaborator, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Hana Fousová, nee Reinvald, as a child

Hana Fousová

* 1934

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, A secret police collaborator and 4 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Miroslav Froyda, 1954

Miroslav Froyda

* 1933 †︎ 2022

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, A communist prosecutor, A communist interrogator and 6 more categories

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria and 2 more anniversaries

Jindřich Goba, mid-1970s

Jindřich Goba

* 1933

Emigrant, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A secret police collaborator

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Arnošt Goldflam 1950s

Master of Fine Arts Arnošt Goldflam

* 1946

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, A secret police collaborator, Art and censorship, The topic of security forces before 1989

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

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Ján Gronský

* 1928 †︎ 2023

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, A secret police collaborator and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

As a twenty-year-old, Jaroslav Grosman was „totally mounted“ into a branch of the company Daimler-Benz in Nová Paka. Along with friends they disrupted the power line and thus closed down part of the factory.

Jaroslav Grosman

* 1924 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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