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

Jiří Barteček at the end of 1970s

Jiří Barteček

* 1954

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Pavel Bártek in 1973

Mgr. Pavel Bártek

* 1954

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness Helena Bartíková

Helena Bartíková

* 1955

Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Secondary school graduation photo, 1988

Mgr. Jana Bártková

* 1969

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Bartl performing at Hašek's Lipnice, summer 1969

Zdeněk Bartl

* 1950

Art and censorship, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Bartoň

* 1930

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 2 more anniversaries

Doris Bartoníčková in 1941

Mgr. Doris Bartoníčková

* 1937

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 4 more anniversaries

Zdena Bartoníková (née Končická) in 1968

Zdena Bartoníková

* 1950

Volhynian Czechs, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Luděk Bartoš during the recording for Memory of Nations, 7 June 2022, Olomouc

Mgr. Lieutenant Colonel Luděk Bartoš

* 1944 †︎ 2023

Déclassé, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 3 more anniversaries

Jan Bartoš on graduation photography in 1962

Jan Bartoš

* 1944

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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