Witness of local events from the Communist era | Memory of Nations

Anna Šestáková

* 1918 †︎ 2023

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

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Portrait of Markéta Šestáková taken by a neighbouring photographer in 28th October Street in České Budějovice, 1981

Markéta Šestáková

* 1952

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

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

Young Věra Šestáková

Věra Šestáková

* 1920 †︎ 2019

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

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 9 more anniversaries

David Ševčík in 2024

David Ševčík

* 1978

The underground, Artists, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Ševčík at the scout camp of the Liberec Mustang troop in 1978

Ladislav Ševčík

* 1962

Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Otto Ševčík, probably 1953

Otto Ševčík

* 1931

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Drahomíra Ševčíková at the Business Academy, second half of the 1940s, Olomouc

Drahomíra Ševčíková

* 1931

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

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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 3 more anniversaries

Ludmila Ševčíková having a snack in a field in the late 1940s.

Ludmila Ševčíková

* 1930

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Alena Ševčíková, graduating from secondary school, 1953

Alena Ševčíková

* 1935

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Witness in the High Tatras, 1970s

Júlia Ševčíková

* 1950

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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