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

Hugo Mensdorff-Pouilly in 2017

Hugo Mensdorff-Pouilly

* 1929 †︎ 2023

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Nobility, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Menšík during recording for Post Bellum, 2022

Vladimír Menšík

* 1927 †︎ 2025

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Menšík in the year 2019

Zdeněk Menšík

* 1929

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jaromír Mergl in his youth

Jaromír Mergl

* 1962

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Merhaut in 1978

Josef Merhaut

* 1959

Romania, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Czechs from Banat and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Marie Merhautová, née Borecká

Marie Merhautová, rozená Borecká

* 1941

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Emilie Slavomíra Měříčková

Emilie Slavomíra Měřičková

* 1930

Member of an Illegal Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Friars, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Měřínský, the Újezd teacher, 1965

Mgr. Vladimír Měřínský

* 1934 †︎ 2022

The Partisan, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Veteran of WW2, western front, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 18. 4. 1945 - Zákřovský masakr and 9 more anniversaries

Jan Merta, 2024

Jan Merta

* 1952

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Olga Mertlíková on Prague's Petřín Hill with her children in 1989

PhDr. Olga Mertlíková

* 1955

Historian, 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

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