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Karel Bluma, 2025

Karel Bluma

* 1937

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Kateřina Blumová, 1960

Mgr. Kateřina Blumová

* 1954

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Sisters Jana (left) and Alexandra Šebelík in 1935

Jana Bobková

* 1926

Forced labour during the WW2, Déclassé, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 1 more anniversaries

Hynek Bočan - director, filming of Private Whirlwind (Soukromá vichřice), 1960s

Hynek Bočan

* 1938

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Boček in 1977

Ing. Jiří Boček

* 1957

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

Witness as a student at the University of Brno, 2nd half of the 1960s

Tomáš Bochořák

* 1948

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 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

Eliška Bočková

Major Eliška Bočková

* 1942

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ivana Bočková as a young woman

Ivana Bočková

* 1946

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

In youth

Ľubomír Boďa

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Major (ret.) Alexander Bognár

* 1917

French Foreign Legion, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Déclassé, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army) and 5 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord and 2 more anniversaries

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