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

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contemporary photo of Anna Butová

Anna Butová

* 1928 †︎ 2020

Czech minority in the former USSR, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people and 2 more categories

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Witness in 1952

Vlasta Bůtová

* 1933

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Věra Buxbaumová (Konečná)

Věra Buxbaumová

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Jitka Bůžková

Jitka Bůžková

* 1928

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jiřina Bystrická, 2012

Jiřina Bystrická

* 1936

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zdenka Bystrická in 1974

Zdenka Bystrická

* 1945

National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 3 more anniversaries

Foto_008 - dobová.JPG (historic)

Šošana Cachor

* 1925 †︎ 2016

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Boy Scouts, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Vladimír Čada at the military service

Vladimír Čada

* 1940

A warder in a communist prison, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

Ivo Čagánek in 1950s

Ivo Čagánek

* 1937

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Boston, USA, six-month stay, double bass tuning

Svatopluk Cagašík

* 1947

Victim of forced relocation, Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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