Witnesses starting with letter M

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

Marta Marsinová

Marta Marsinová

* 1922

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Martí Magrané Yoan

Yoan Martí Magrané

* 1984

Cuba, Cuban Dissident

Horst Martin, 2018

Horst Martin

* 1940

Sudeten Germans

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

Horst Martin, 2018

Horst Martin

* 1940

Sudeten Germans

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

Lukáš Martin at the age of six

Lukáš Martin

* 1967

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Rita Martin, 2025

Rita Martin

* 1963

Cuban Exile, Cuban Intellectual, Cuba, Memory of Our Cuban Neighbours, Cuban Dissident and 2 more categories

Cuba after 1959, Cuba after the Death of Fidel Castro, Dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

Jaromír Martinec in his youth

Jaromír Martinec

* 1939 †︎ 2024

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Martinec at the peak of his hockey career in 1976, when he became the best forward of the World Championships in Katowice

Mgr. Vladimír Martinec

* 1949

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

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