Witnesses starting with letter A

Azat as prisoner

Azat Arshakyan Ազատ Արշակյան

* 1950

Political prisoner from Armenia, Dissident, Armenia

Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Petr Arton

* 1922 †︎ 2021

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 2 more categories

1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel), 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Lumír Aschenbrenner in 1976

Ing. Lumír Aschenbrenner

* 1960

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Ascherlová Hana (*1955)

Hana Ascherlová

* 1955 †︎ 2017

Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Stanislav Aseyev, Prague 2025

Stanislav Aseyev Станіслав Асєєв

* 1989

Political prisoner, Ukraine, Important cultural personality in Ukraine, Human Rights Defender in Ukraine, Journalist and 2 more categories

2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014)

Eva Astlová, 2024

Eva Astlová

* 1958

Relatives of important personalities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Magda Atlasová Schwarzová

Magda Atlasová Schwarzová

* 1919

Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Hidden people

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Libuše Audrlická in a period photo

Libuše Audrlická

* 1924

Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Asaf Auerbach

* 1928 †︎ 2022

Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Winton’s Children, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Norbert Auerbach - private in the US Army

Lieutenant Norbert Auerbach

* 1922 †︎ 2009

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

Battle of the Bulge, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord

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