Witnesses starting with letter D

Sister Hyacinta in 2022

Sestra Hyacinta (Mária) Dubanová

* 1931 †︎ 2025

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Friars, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Bohumil Dubec around 2003

Bohumil Dubec

* 1916 †︎ 2003

French Foreign Legion, Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing and 3 more categories

1940 - The Battle of France

Václav Dubec

Václav Dubec

* 1929 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

At the age of 14

Karel Duben

* 1944

A warder in a communist prison, The Sportsmen

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Paulína Dubeňová about 23 years old shortly after the end of World War II

Paulína Dubeňová (rod. Mladšíková)

* 1922 †︎ 2022

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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Jana Dubová

* 1926

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Witness Karol Dubovan as a young man

Ing. Karol Dubovan

* 1953

Member of an Illegal Church, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Politician and 20 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities and 20 more anniversaries

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Zorica Dubovská, roz. Horáčková

* 1926 †︎ 2021

Diplomat, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Vladimír Dubový

Vladimír Dubový

* 1967

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Profiteers

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Alice Dubská on the graduation photo

Doc. Mgr. Alice Dubská , CSc.

* 1938

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Scientist

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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