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Gabriela Sharma in the 1980s

Gabriela Kumar Sharma

* 1967

United States of America, Dissident, Emigrant, Relatives of important personalities

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

Pavel Šoltys as a child in his favourite park in Petřín, 1950s

Pavel Šoltys

* 1951

United Kingdom, United States of America, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing and 2 more categories

25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Andrej Sziszák during EYD recording in New York, 2023

Andrej Sziszak

* 1957

United States of America, Hungary, Croatia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 19 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 and 22 more anniversaries

Charles Ticho, late 1930s

Charles Ticho

* 1927 †︎ 2022

Holocaust, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Refugee, United States of America, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

Jan Tomeček's passport photo, 1968

Jan Tomeček

* 1926

United States of America, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 5 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Portrait of Petr Vogel, 1968, part of archive file no. 21092 C from the Security Services Archive of the Czech Republic

Prof. PhDr., Dr. H. c. Petr Vogel

* 1937

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, United States of America, Russia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 7 more categories

Dissolution of the Soviet Union, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

As a young gymnast

Norma Zabka

* 1928

United States of America, Czech community in the US, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 29. 7. - 14. 8. 1948 Summer Olympics in London

Želmíra Živná, portrait, 1967

Mgr. Želmíra Živná

* 1937

United States of America, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Czech community in the US and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 3 more anniversaries

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