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Anton Gajdošík - photo from criminal military service (1952)

Anton Gajdošík

* 1933

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Relative of a political prisoner, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Amálie Gajdošíková as a child

Amálie Gajdošíková

* 1940

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

the witness in 1952

Bohumila Gajdůšková

* 1934

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness Jarmila Gajová in the Memory of Nations studio in 2023

Jarmila Gajová

* 1937

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Bohumil Galásek. Portrait, 2010

Mgr. Bohumil Galásek

* 1938

Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miroslava Galásková with her mother and brother in Prague on the way to Stara Ves nad Ondřejnicí (ca. 1954)

Miroslava Galásková

* 1946

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Yuri Galatenko / zero years

Jurij Galatenko

* 1964

Witness of local events from the Communist era

Ukraine in 1990-s., 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Notburga 19 years old

Eva Notburga Galbavá

* 1930

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Friars, Witness of local events from the Communist era

July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

During service in PTP

Michal Gálik

* 1932

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Underage political prisoners, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Wedding of the witness with Milan Galia, 1953

Iva Galiová

* 1934

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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