Witnesses starting with letter D

Gene Deitch

Eugene Deitch

* 1924 †︎ 2020

A cultural celebrity, United States of America

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

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Zdeňka Deitchová

* 1928

A cultural celebrity, Relatives of important personalities, Art and censorship

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Kateřina Dejmal portrait from youth

Kateřina Dejmalová

* 1949

Dissident, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jaroslav Dejmek

* 1935 †︎ 2022

Déclassé, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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Věra Dekastellová

* 1919 †︎ 2014

Sokol, The Sportsmen, Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova

19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Britta del Missier 2023

Britta Del Missier

* 1964

Austria

Javier Delgado Torna, 2022

Javier Delgado Torna

* 1968

Cuba, Cuban Dissident

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Luděk Dembovský

* 1929 †︎ 2016

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r and 3 more anniversaries

Jan Demčík

Jan Demčík

* 1913 †︎ 2005

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

Eva Demelová about three years in front of Michalc's house in Nořín. This photo was sent by her family to Hagibor, apparently with a package. On the other side of the photo is written: Eva, we greet you and come to us soon, we are looking forward to you, dad and grandma, Helenka greets you. Write when we could come for you.

Eva Demelová

* 1936

Theresienstadt Ghetto, People helping Jews during WWII

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

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