Witnesses starting with letter K

Karel Kaplan in 2018

Doc. PhDr., CSc. Karel Kaplan

* 1928 †︎ 2023

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Historian, Communist official, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Pavel Kaplan in July 2019

Pavel Kaplan

* 1962

Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Witness - Radovan Kaplan

Ing. Radovan Kaplan

* 1966

National minorities, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Art and censorship

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 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, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Zlata Kaprálová in Budapest, 1984

Zlata Kaprálová

* 1957

Anti-communist rebel, Svědci Jehovovi, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Helena Kapuścińska

Helena Kapuścińska

* 1924

Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Karabel František and Jarmila, wedding photo

Jiří Karabel

* 1938

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Participant in antifascist resistance, The Children of Svatobořice

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Georgios Karadzos

Georgios Karadzos

* 1941

Greece, National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war

Patra Karadžu

Patra Karadžu

* 1926

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia

28.10.194 - 23.4.1941 Greek- Italian war, 6.4. - 23.4.1941 Battle of Greece, 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war

Josef Karafiát in winter in Canada in 1987

Josef Karafiát

* 1957

The Plastic People of the Universe, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

With her husband

Helena Karafová

* 1922

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

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