Witnesses starting with letter M

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

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

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