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

Wilibald Klinger on vacation in America

Wilibald Klinger

* 1941 †︎ 2022

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Industrial settler in border region in 60', Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 5. 1945 - vypálení Javoříčka , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ludmila Klinkovská, 1947

Ludmila Klinkovská

* 1929

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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Svatopluk Klinkovský during an interview for Memory of Nations and the documentary Ševci 90, 2019

Svatopluk Klinkovský

* 1928 †︎ 2020

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miroslav Klípa, early 1960s

Miroslav Klípa

* 1953

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

František Klišík in 2023

František Klišík

* 1963 †︎ 2025

Human Rights Defender, Dissident, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements and 7 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída and 2 more anniversaries

Dalibor Kloc in his childhood

Dalibor Kloc

* 1929 †︎ 2025

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Boy Scouts

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák

Jan Kloda in 1948

Jan Kloda

* 1926

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord

Witness as a 20-year-old man, 1984

Otomar Klodner

* 1964

Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground, Anti-communist rebel

Palach Week, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

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Čestmír Klos

* 1943

Journalist, Witness of local events from the Communist era

19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r

Jan Klos

* 1941

Déclassé, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17.4.-19.11. 1958 - EXPO 58

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