Witnesses starting with letter B

Josef Beran

Ing. Josef Beran

* 1931

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner

Archive picture

Milan Beran

* 1950

Member of an Illegal Church, Dissident, Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Vladimír Beran in Czechoslovakian army troop (builder´s company- Prague 1945)

Vladimír Beran

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR and 3 more anniversaries

Zdeněk Beran in the army, 1951-1952

Zdeněk Beran

* 1932 †︎ 2025

Underage political prisoners, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Jan Beránek

Jan Beránek

* 1943

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Beránek Jiří, 1955, in the army

Jiří Beránek

* 1935

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Karel Beránek

Ing. Karel Beránek

* 1925 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Member of Revolutionary Guard Corps, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 6. 1942 - prezekuce a věznění studentů z Roudnice nad Labem

Vaclav Beranek, 1962

Václav Beránek

* 1943 †︎ 2023

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

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

Viktor Beránek, current photo

Viktor Beránek

* 1951

Illegal border crossing, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Zdeněk Beránek, 1950s

Zdeněk Beránek

* 1939

Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

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