Witnesses starting with letter D

Václav Daněk, temporary portrait

Václav Daněk

* 1929 †︎ 2025

Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sokol, The Sportsmen, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers and 4 more anniversaries

Zdenko F. Daneš

Zdenko F. Daneš

* 1920 †︎ 2023

Participant in antifascist resistance, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Rudolf Daníček

Rudolf Daníček

* 1933

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

František Daniel

František Daniel

* 1921 †︎ unknown

Holocaust, Gypsies / Roma, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Petr Daniel, 80s

Ing. Petr Daniel

* 1954

Descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Zdeněk Daniel

* 1929

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Holocaust, Memory of vanished settlements

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Contemporary portrait

Marie Danielová

* 1932

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Witness during floor exercises, 1950s

Ferdinand Daniš

* 1929

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

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

Czechoslovakian representative Alena Danišová, 1950s

Alena Danišová

* 1931

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

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

Michal Danišovič during the filming

Michal Danišovič

* 1945

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

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