Witnesses starting with letter B

Václav Blabolil with his family, circa 1959

Václav Blabolil

* 1958

Charter 77 signatory, Art and censorship, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Marie Blabolilová - Matauchová - detail.jpg (historic)

Marie Blabolilová

* 1923

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Portrait of the witness, Prague, 1945

Hana Blagodárná, rozená Hnitková

* 1935

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Anton Blaha

Anton Blaha

* 1934

Lawyer, Writer, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jaromír Bláha at the age of nine

MUDr. Jaromír Bláha

* 1970

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Bláha in September 1970

Jiří Bláha

* 1950

Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain, Memory of vanished settlements

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Miloslav Bláha in 2016

Miloslav Bláha

* 1927 †︎ 2022

Non-Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Rudolf Bláha - Baghíra 1945

Ing., Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Rudolf Bláha

* 1927 †︎ unknown

Boy Scouts, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Václav Bláha

Václav Bláha

* 1949

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Zuzana Blahetková

* 1936

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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