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

Josef Beran

Ing. Josef Beran

* 1931

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner

Zdeněk Beran in the army, 1951-1952

Zdeněk Beran

* 1932 †︎ 2025

Underage political prisoners, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Vaclav Beranek, 1962

Václav Beránek

* 1943 †︎ 2023

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

Jan Beránek

Jan Beránek

* 1943

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Beránek Jiří, 1955, in the army

Jiří Beránek

* 1935

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Viktor Beránek, current photo

Viktor Beránek

* 1951

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Zdeněk Beránek, 1950s

Zdeněk Beránek

* 1939

Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Věra Beránková, 1960s

Věra Beránková

* 1939

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 , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Roland Berauer in his youth

Roland Berauer

* 1935 †︎ 2025

Germany, Russia, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák and 4 more anniversaries

Marianne Bergida

* 1943

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial and 2 more anniversaries

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