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

Nina Burláková in the end of 1970s

Nina Burláková

* 1938

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

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

Radomír Burša / Ostrava / June 2019

Radomír Burša

* 1961

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Ing. Vladimír Buřt

* 1964

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Member of an Illegal Church, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Memory of vanished settlements, Environmentalist

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Wedding photo with Miroslav Buřt, 1960

Jaromíra Buřtová

* 1941

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Radislav Bušek

Radislav Bušek

* 1929 †︎ 2023

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Witness in 1952

Vlasta Bůtová

* 1933

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Ján Buzássy, 70s

Ján Buzássy

* 1935

Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r

Jitka Bůžková

Jitka Bůžková

* 1928

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Zdzisław Bykowski in 1973

Zdzisław Antoni Bykowski

* 1947

Poland, Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Byron at the First Holy Communion, 1958

Marie Byron

* 1950

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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