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Milena Hercíková on stage in 1970

Milena Hercíková

* 1936

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 22 May 1946 - Trial with K. H. Frank and 3 more anniversaries

Jan Herejk in 1948, graduation photo

Ing. Jan Herejk

* 1928

Forced labour during the WW2, Déclassé, Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Milan Herian filming an interview for the project Stories of Our Neighbours

Milan Herian

* 1942

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

The lieutenant colonel Jinřich Heřkovič

Jindřich Heřkovič

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 9 more anniversaries

Otto Herman at the military service in Jičín, 1970

Otto Herman

* 1949

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, Perestroika, Death marches 1944-1945

Daniel Herman (1989)

Mgr. Daniel Herman

* 1963

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Liechtenstein, Germany, Diplomat, Representative of the Church and 5 more categories

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, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Heřman in the clearance office of the 1st television programme in 1970. Television centre Ještěd.
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Jiří Heřman

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Vladimír Herman

* 1955

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Nora Hermanová, née Metzlová, České Budějovice, 1937

Nora Hermanová

* 1934

Holocaust, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jarmila Hermanová at the age of fourteen

Jarmila Hermanová

* 1930

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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