Witnesses starting with letter B

Jan in his youth

Jan Balcar

* 1946

Art and censorship

12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Soňa Balcárková

Soňa Balcárková

* 1953

Witness of local events from the Communist era

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 1 more anniversaries

Kristina Balcarová in 1940

Kristina Balcarová

* 1936 †︎ 2020

Sudeten Germans, 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

Josef Balejka

Colonel Josef Balejka

* 1917 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Emigrant, Royal Air Force and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia

Jaroslav Balek

Jaroslav Balek

* 1933 †︎ unknown

Boy Scouts

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Libor Bálek

* 1966

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

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

Professor, Ing., CSc. Pavol Balgavý

* 1944

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Scientist

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

Stanislav Balík working on the reconstruction of the Scout centre in Bludov

docent PhDr. Stanislav Balík

* 1978

Boy Scouts, University professor

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

Witness, 1939

Eva Balíková

* 1925 †︎ 2021

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, Death marches 1944-1945, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 8 more anniversaries

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Milan Ballek

* 1931

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

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