Witnesses starting with letter J

Jindřiška Jirsová in 2021

PaedDr. Jindřiška Jirsová

* 1933 †︎ 2025

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

Jiří Jírů, maturita photo, Prague 1964

Jiří Jírů

* 1946

A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Little Milena Jirušová, early 1950s

Milena Jirušová

* 1948

Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Jaroslav Jiskra, 1968

Jaroslav Jiskra

* 1952

Historian, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Václav Jiterský on the 6th of June 2015

Václav Jiterský

* 1927 †︎ 2016

Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

Eva Joachimová, November 1968

Eva Joachimová

* 1954

Dissident, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner, Charter 77 signatory, Writer and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ja v LMS[1]..jpg (historic)

Sotiris Joanidis

* 1939 †︎ 2021

National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Greece

Jana Jobová in 2021

Jana Jobová

* 1944

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jaroslav Jochec in 2022

Jaroslav Jochec

* 1946

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

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

At the aviation day in Hradec Králové, Jiří Jogl and Pavel Špilka won the joint top prize (probably 1998)

Jiří Jogl

* 1953

Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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