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Bohuslav Eliáš

* 1937

Representative of the Church, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Catholic clerical, Boy Scouts and 3 more categories

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Jindřich Eliáš with a gramophone record

Jindřich Eliáš

* 1950

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

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

Karel Elias

Karel Eliáš

* 1945

Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jana Eliášová as a young woman

Jana Eliášová

* 1947

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Josefa Pavelcová on the graduation tableau, 1963

Mgr. Josefa Eliášová

* 1945

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

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

Karel Ellinger

Karel Ellinger

* 1928 †︎ 2024

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Vladimír Emmer, school-leaving photo, 1970

Vladimír Emmer

* 1952

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák and 1 more anniversaries

Graduation photo of Dagmar Emmerová

Dagmar Emmerová

* 1954

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Magdalena Emmerová (en)

Magdalena Emmerová

* 1928

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

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

20-year old Milan Enc in 1956

Milan Enc

* 1936

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death and 3 more anniversaries

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