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

Alena Mejzlíková (centre) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow

Alena Mejzlíková

* 1957

The Sportsmen, 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

Alois Melich

Alois Melich

* 1930

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Jan Melichar

Ing. arch. Jan Melichar

* 1934

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

Petr Melichar in 1986

Petr Melichar

* 1967

Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Ludmila Melichaříková in 2024

Ludmila Melichaříková

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Marie Melicharová

Marie Melicharová

* 1924 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

Eva Šašecí, married Melmuková, as a vicar in 1956

PhDr. Eva Melmuková

* 1932 †︎ 2022

Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Historian, Non-Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989 and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1940 - The Battle of France, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH and 7 more anniversaries

Josip Dmytrovič Melnyk, a portrait

Josip Dmytrovič Melnyk

* 1930

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, The Partisan, Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance and 6 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland and 6 more anniversaries

Jaroslava Melšová, 2021

Jaroslava Melšová

* 1937

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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

Jaroslava Mendlová in ČSA uniform

Jaroslava Mendlová

* 1947

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

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