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Jan Wiener

Colonel (ret.) Jan Wiener

* 1920 †︎ 2010

Veteran of WW2, western front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, A cultural celebrity and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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Vladimír Winter

* 1925 †︎ 2021

Relative of a political prisoner, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Red Army soldier

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Henryk Wrona during the interview in May 2021

Colonel Henryk Wrona

* 1945

Poland, People's Army of Poland soldier, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Výjimečný stav v Polsku

Mrťková Ludmila

Ludmila Zadníčková

* 1919 †︎ 2014

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death

Jaromír Zahálka

Colonel Jaromír Zahálka

* 1928 †︎ 2012

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Relatives of important personalities

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich

Věra Žahourková

* 1925 †︎ 2015

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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František Zahrádka

* 1930 †︎ 2017

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), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Period portrait

Master of Fine Arts Zdeněk Zahradník

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

When employed with the State Railways. Prague, 1980

Mgr. Marián Zajíček

* 1951

Dissident, Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical, Anti-communist rebel and 3 more categories

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Zdena Zajoncová, September 1945

Zdena Zajoncová

* 1921

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Journalist, Sokol and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 2 more anniversaries

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