Witnesses starting with letter L

Jiří Lexa, circa 1958

Jiří Lexa

* 1941

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Josef Lexa, 1960

Ing. Josef Lexa

* 1936

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

Karel Ležák.jpg (historic)

Karel Ležák

* 1928

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia

Marta Ležáková

Marta Ležáková

* 1935

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Kamil Lhoták the younger, far left. Photograph from the 1970's

Kamil Lhoták

* 1941

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 8 more anniversaries

Radomil Lhotka in 1977

Radomil Lhotka

* 1953

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Memory of vanished settlements, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”

František Lhotský as a soldier of the Czechoslovak People's Army in the 1950s

František Lhotský

* 1932 †︎ 2016

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Vladimír Líbal

* 1954

Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Anti-communist rebel

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Picture from ID

Jaroslav Abbé Libánský

* 1952

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial

Juliana Libári during the EYD recording

Julianna Libári

* 1943

Hungary, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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