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

Josef Mádl, twenty-four years old

Josef Mádl

* 1960

Representative of the Church, Non-Catholic clerical, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Vladimír Mádle at the army in 1965

Vladimír Mádle

* 1946

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

František Mádr, Olomouc, 1953

Lieutenant František Mádr

* 1927 †︎ 2026

Forced labour during the WW2, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 1 more anniversaries

Pavel Mahdal (right) at a winter exercise in Dobrá Voda, 1985

Sergeant (ret.) Pavel Mahdal

* 1964

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Jaroslav Mahel, 1968

Jaroslav Mahel

* 1948

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Hana during Velvet revolution

Hana Mahlerová

* 1944

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

Contemporary photo from ID registration sheet

Karel Maier

* 1957

Anti-communist rebel, 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

Marie Maitnerová in a wedding photo

Marie Maitnerová

* 1943

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Mgr. Václav Majer

* 1930

Holocaust, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Emigrants from Russia, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 3 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

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RNDr. Ivan Makásek

* 1944

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Environmentalist

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

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