Witnesses starting with letter M

Zdeňka Markovičová in 1999

Ing. Zdeňka Markovičová

* 1978

War veteran after 1989

22. 4. 1996. - 10. 6. 1999. Kosovská válka

Anna Olga Markowitz in 2019

Mgr. Olga Anna Markowitz

* 1949

Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, A cultural celebrity, Descendant of a Holocaust survivor

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Luděk Marks in the 1980s
(Photo: archive of Martin Machovec)

Luděk Marks

* 1963

The underground, Dissident, Journalist, Charter 77 signatory, Writer and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

Brigitte Marksová in 1960

Brigitte Marksová

* 1941

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Milena Markusová's graduation in the Municipal House in Prague, 1973

Milena Markusová

* 1948

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

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hugo Marom 1948

Hugo Marom

* 1928 †︎ 2018

Emigrant, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Winton’s Children, Royal Air Force

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel), 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Arrested by the gestapo

Jan Maršálek

* 1914 †︎ 2011

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Political prisoner in WW2, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen

Helga Marsch

Helga Marsch

* unknown

Germany, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945)

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories

Jiří Maršík was a member of the Mladá Boleslav mountain climbing club; they climbed rocks in Český ráj, the Tatras and even the Caucasus

Jiří Maršík

* 1951

Communist official, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Helena Maršíková

* 1926 †︎ 2015

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou

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