Witnesses starting with letter J

Radim Jauker at the time when he and his friends founded the Blue Star scout troop, modeled after the Fast Arrows

Radim Jauker

* 1971

Boy Scouts, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - Third renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

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István Jávor

* 1948

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, Victim of the political police in Hungary, A cultural celebrity

Michal Jvorcak in 1945

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Michal Javorčák

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev and 2 more anniversaries

Kateřina Javorková( (en)

MUDr. Kateřina Javorková

* 1971

Relative of a political prisoner, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Pavel Javornický as a young man

RNDr., CSc. Pavel Javornický

* 1932

Representative of the Church, Non-Catholic clerical, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague

Ludmila Javorová

Ludmila Javorová

* 1932

Representative of the Church, Vicar without State agreement, Catholic clerical, Anti-communist rebel

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

Prom photo

PhDr. Kateřina Javorská

* 1949

National minorities

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jaroslav Javorský wearing the "freedom hat", 2022

Jaroslav Javorský

* 1947

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Political prisoner, Literature in exile

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Ladislav Jaworek, about 1963

Ladislav Jaworek

* 1946

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Kryzystof 1959

Krzysztof Jaxa-Rożen

* 1936

National minorities, Nobility, Poland

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland

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