Witnesses starting with letter K

Pavla Kováčová with her daughter, 1940s

Pavla Kováčová

* 1913 †︎ 2013

Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, National minorities, Holocaust, The Partisan and 5 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 4 more anniversaries

András Kovács, at the end of the seventies

András Kovács

* 1947

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

Marie Koval

Marie Koval

* 1935

Russia

Miroslav Koval, 2016

Miroslav Koval

* 1944 †︎ 2022

Relative of a political prisoner, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Artists

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

Bohuslav Kovalčuk

Bohuslav Kovalčuk

* 1924 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

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Josef Kovalčuk

* 1948 †︎ 2018

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, University professor

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Anežka Kovalová

* 1949

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship, Artists

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Jiří Kovanda, 20th birthday, Petřín 1973

Jiří Kovanda

* 1953

Art and censorship, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Karel Kovanda, 1968

Karel Kovanda

* 1944

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

31. 10. 1967 – Spontaneous student demonstration in Prague, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 4 more anniversaries

Ivy Kovandová za války

Ivy Kovandová roz. Norman

* 1922 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, western front, National minorities, Relatives of important personalities

13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

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