Witnesses starting with letter B

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Jarmila Bočánková

* 1931 †︎ 2025

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Emil Boček

G/Cpt. Emil Boček

* 1923 †︎ 2023

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Royal Air Force, Veteran of WW2, western front

1940 - The Battle of France

František Bocek in January 2012

František Bocek

* 1928 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Boček in 2010

Jiří Boček

* 1946

Jiří Boček in 1977

Ing. Jiří Boček

* 1957

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Witness as a student at the University of Brno, 2nd half of the 1960s

Tomáš Bochořák

* 1948

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel and 2 more categories

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

Eliška Bočková

Major Eliška Bočková

* 1942

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ivana Bočková as a young woman

Ivana Bočková

* 1946

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

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

Ján Boďa 2015

Ján Boďa

* 1956

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 6.-13. 12. 1980 Operation Krkonoše

In youth

Ľubomír Boďa

* 1932

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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