Witnesses starting with letter O

Ján Okoličáni

Ján Okoličáni

* 1918

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia

Portrét současný 1

Ladislav Okrouhlík

* 1924

A secret police agent, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Witness Danica Okrucká as a young woman

JUDr. Danica Okrucká

* 1940

Lawyer, Lawyer in the 50`s, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Déclassé, Hidden people

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Oktavec

* 1951

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

17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Branislav Oláh - Campaign Against Hate

Branislav Oláh

* 1974

Gypsies / Roma, Writer, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Tibor Oláh

Tibor Oláh

* 1952

National minorities, Gypsies / Roma

Pan Oleščuk se zapřaženými soby. Vorkuta, 1956

Ihor Oleshchuk Ігор Олещук

* 1931

Ukraine, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Alik Olisevych, Riga, Latvia, 1979

Alik (Oleh) Olisevych Алік (Олег) Олісевич

* 1958

Human Rights Defender in Ukraine, Important cultural personality in Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukrainian Dissent

Ukraine in 1986–1991

Otmar Oliva

Otmar Oliva

* 1952

Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Pavel Oliva in 1946

Pavel Oliva

* 1923 †︎ 2021

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

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