Before the Fall of Iron Curtain 1946–1949 | Memory of Nations

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Jindřich Benda

* 1922 †︎ unknown

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Veteran of WW2, eastern front

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

M. Benda- period portrait

Miloslav Benda

* 1919

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Miroslav Benda, 1952

Miroslav Benda

* 1932

Sokol

19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Antonín Beneš

Antonín Beneš

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 12. 9. 1944 Bombing of St. Ján´s wood near Kladno

Benno Beneš during the military service

Pater Benno Beneš

* 1938 †︎ 2020

Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical, Friars

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

František Benes

František Beneš

* 1928

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Anti-communist rebel

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Ivan Beneš after graduation, Prague, 1971

RNDr., CSc. Ivan Beneš

* 1948

Environmentalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Scientist, Life along the Iron Curtain

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 4 more anniversaries

Ivo Beneš

Ivo Beneš

* 1934 †︎ 2026

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Jan Beneš as a young man

Jan Beneš

* 1936 †︎ 2007

Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

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, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Josef Beneš, 1932

Josef Beneš

* 1936

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol and 2 more categories

2. 7. 1951 - Babický případ, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 8 more anniversaries

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