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Jiří Suchan at Sovinec, the 1980s

Jiří Suchan

* 1961

Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Suchánek took part in a running competition organized by the Ostašov Foundry (1976)

Ing. Jan Suchánek

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks and 1 more anniversaries

Jindřich Suchánek na dobové fotografii

Jindřich Suchánek

* 1954

Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r and 2 more anniversaries

Vladimír Suchánek (1943)

Vladimír Suchánek

* 1933 †︎ 2021

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák and 11 more anniversaries

Anežka Suchánková (cutout from a family photograph), circa 1950s

Anežka Suchánková

* 1933

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

5. 5. 1945 - vypálení Javoříčka , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Bohumila Suchánková in 2023

Bohumila Suchánková

* 1933

Member of Orel, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Marie Suchánková / about 1945

Marie Suchánková

* 1928

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Photograph of Josef Suchár, camp Radost 1977

Josef Suchár

* 1958

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Friars, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miloš's portrait from late 1950s

Miloš Šuchma

* 1940

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Graduation photo, 1961

Professor Jiří Suchomel

* 1944

University professor, Artists, Witness of local events from the Communist era

20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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