Witnesses starting with letter G

Fedor Gabčan, Ostrava, 1987

Fedor Gabčan

* 1940

Holocaust, The Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

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, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Young Milan Gabčan

Milan Gabčan

* 1932 †︎ 2021

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Portrait of František Gabčo during his army service, Klatovy, 1967 or 1968

František Gabčo

* 1948

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Memory of vanished settlements

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

Imrich Gablech

Imrich Gablech

* 1915 †︎ 2016

Veteran of WW2, western front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Royal Air Force, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Marie Gablerová in the 1960s

Marie Gablerová

* 1935

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

Emília Gáboríková

Emília Gáboríková

* 1933

People helping Jews during WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Michal Gabriel in his second year at AVU (Academy of Fine Arts in Prague) in the studio of the sculptor Kryštůfek

Professor Michal Gabriel

* 1960

Art and censorship, The underground, A cultural celebrity

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Elsa Gabrielová -1957

Elsa Gabrielová

* 1934 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Ján Gadžo as a soldier in US army (1971 - 1973)

Ján Gadžo

* 1949

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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Hanuš Gaertner

* 1926

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 9. - 10. 11. 1938 Crystal Night, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 7 more anniversaries

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