Witnesses starting with letter J

Bohuslav Jirásek before starting his military service (1956)

Bohuslav Jirásek

* 1937 †︎ 2022

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 1 more anniversaries

In the garden of the family house in Rychnov nad Kněžnou

Master of Fine Arts Jan Jirásek

* 1955

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

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

Mark Jirásek, 1978

Mark Jirásek

* 1957

Charter 77 signatory, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Pavel Jirásek, 2023

Pavel Jirásek

* 1961

Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Zdeněk Jirásek while serving in the army

Zdeněk Jirásek

* 1958

Boy Scouts

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Klára Jirásková, Prague-Strašnice, about 1971

JUDr. Klára Jirásková

* 1967

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Květa Jirásková at the age of seventeen - a year before graduation

Květa Jirásková

* 1939

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

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen

Marcela Jirásková (en)

Marcela Jirásková

* 1952

Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

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Miloslava Jirasová, roz. Studničková

* 1913 †︎ 2014

The Women of Lidice, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Milan Jiricek, ca. 1988-89

Milan Jiříček

* 1947

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975 - Vietnam War, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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