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Vlasta Šedivá

* 1921

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

František Šedivý temporary portrait

Ing. František Šedivý

* 1927 †︎ 2021

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

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

Bořivoj Sedláček as 18 years old

Ing. Bořivoj Sedláček

* 1927 †︎ 2026

Croatia, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Sedláček as a pilot, 1954

František Sedláček

* 1931 †︎ 2022

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Photo from around 1980 / Jan Sedláček's archive

Jan Sedláček

* 1931 †︎ 2016

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Karel Sedláček

Ing. Karel Sedláček

* 1927

Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

With brother, Milan Sedláček on the right

Milan Sedláček

* 1931

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, A secret police collaborator and 1 more categories

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death

Tomáš Sedláček

armádní generál Tomáš Sedláček

* 1918 †︎ 2012

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising and 2 more anniversaries

Witness Emil Sedlačko in his youth

Emil Sedlačko

* 1945

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Herta Sedláčková

* 1923

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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