Witnesses starting with letter B

Ladislav Bém

Ladislav Bém

* 1918 †︎ 2012

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Zdeněk Benáček

* 1952

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, National minorities, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století, The Sportsmen, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Bohumil Benák in 1950s

Bohumil Benák

* 1932

National minorities, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence

Jaroslav Benák during recording

Jaroslav Benák

* 1962

The Sportsmen, The topic of security forces before 1989

Ján Benč

* 1932 †︎ 2021

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

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Ivan Bančák - old photo

Colonel (ret.) Ivan Benčák

* 1919 †︎ 2007

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Red Army soldier, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev

Ján Benček

M.Eng. Ján Benček

* 1921 †︎ 2016

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, The topic of security forces before 1989

Ján Benčík

* 1948

Politician, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Antonie Bencová in 2021

Antonie Bencová

* 1939

Romania, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

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

Portrait

RNDr. Ján Bencúr

* 1950

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

18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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