Witnesses starting with letter J

Jiří Janů in 2025

Jiří Janů

* 1966

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

František Janula in 2012

František Janula

* 1932 †︎ 2020

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Art and censorship

Janyr orez.jpg (historic)

Přemysl Janýr

* 1949

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Emigrant, The underground, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee and 4 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Janyšová - youth - portrait

Libuše Janyšová

* 1932

Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jaromír Janza in the 1950s

Jaromír Janza

* 1924

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

Japaridze Simon

Simon Japaridze

* 1921

Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 23.8.1939 - Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1940 - 1941 Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, 1941 - 1944 German occupation of the Baltic states

Tinatin Japharidze, 2024

Tinatin Japharidze თინათინ ჯაფარიძე

* 1978

Georgia, Relative of a political prisoner

Josef Jařab in 2018

Professor Josef Jařab

* 1937 †︎ 2023

Dissident, Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Libuše Jarcovjáková, 2016

Libuše Jarcovjáková

* 1952

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

contemporary photo

Jarmila Jarkovská

* 1924

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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