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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

Marie Ševcová during her studies at the Medical Faculty in Leningrad

MUDr. Marie Ševcová

* 1932

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 2 more anniversaries

Bohdan Ševčuk

Bohdan Ševčuk

* 1950

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Repatriated and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, Ukraine in 1986–1991, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

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