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

Zuzana Hudečková as a pioneer (early 1970s)

Zuzana Hudečková

* 1962

Lawyer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Wedding photograph of Vladimír Hudousek

Vladimír Hudousek

* 1941

Environmentalist, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Wedding photo of the witness

Marta Hudousková

* 1946

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

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

Anna in 1936

Anna Huječková

* 1928

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

Period portrait of Jiří Hůla, Kostelec nad Černými lesy, early 1980s

Jiří Hůla

* 1944 †︎ 2022

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists, A cultural celebrity

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

Miroslav Hůla in 2019

Miroslav Hůla

* 1933

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Second wedding in Sychrov in 1971

Otakar Hulec

* 1935

Historian, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era

26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Milan Hulík before 1989, when he was defending dissidents

JUDr. Milan Hulík

* 1946

Lawyer, 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

The witness on his mother's birthday, 21 August 1968

Rudolf Hůlka

* 1953

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

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, Palach Week and 1 more anniversaries

Jana Hůlková in Stroužné, 1978

Jana Hůlková

* 1954

Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland), The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands" , 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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