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Antonín Holub with his wife in Scout uniform

Antonín Holub

* 1920

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Tomáš Holub

ThLic. Mons. Tomáš Holub , Th.D.

* 1967

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Relative of a political prisoner, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, War veteran after 1989

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War, 22. 4. 1996. - 10. 6. 1999. Kosovská válka

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Pavel Holý

* 1927 †︎ 2013

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

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Vít-Bohumil Homolka in a photo from the preserved StB volumes

Vít-Bohumil Homolka

* 1956

Charter 77 signatory, Art and censorship, The underground, Anti-communist rebel

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Blanka Homolková in 2019

Blanka Homolková

* 1940

Communist official, A communist interrogator, Participant in antifascist resistance, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

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Eduard Hones

* 1937 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Border Guards, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Kamil Honisch

Kamil Honisch

* 1964

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, The underground, Dissident, Anti-communist rebel

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness as a student of the Higher Vocational School of Glassmaking in Nový Bor, 1953

Osvald Hons

* 1938

Historian, National minorities, Forced labour during the WW2, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Doc Honzík as a young man

docent PhDr. Jiří Honzík

* 1924 †︎ 2018

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, A cultural celebrity, Underage political prisoners, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Horáček

* 1933 †︎ 2018

Communist official, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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