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

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Karel Beránek

Ing. Karel Beránek

* 1925 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 6. 1942 - prezekuce a věznění studentů z Roudnice nad Labem

Vaclav Beranek, 1962

Václav Beránek

* 1943 †︎ 2023

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Beránek, 1950s

Zdeněk Beránek

* 1939

Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Věra Beránková, 1960s

Věra Beránková

* 1939

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

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

A historical photo of Margita Beranová

Margita Beranová

* 1930

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Roland Berauer in his youth

Roland Berauer

* 1935 †︎ 2025

Germany, Russia, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák and 4 more anniversaries

Vlasta Bérešová at the ball in Velké Losiny, 1960

Vlasta Bérešová

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Anna Bergerová, photo from the identification of "Union of Slovak Partisans"

Anna Bergerová

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Communist official, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz and 2 more anniversaries

Marianne Bergida

* 1943

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 2 more anniversaries

Photo from an ID card, year unknown

Miroslav Berkovský

* 1916 †︎ unknown

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 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

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