Witnesses starting with letter P

Jana Pešková, 80s

Jana Pešková

* 1947

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jana Pešková in 2020

Jana Pešková

* 1943

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel

A historic photo of Jiřina Pešková, early 1950s

Jiřina Pešková

* 1933 †︎ 2026

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions

Marie Pešková, 1977, historical photography

Marie Pešková

* 1937

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 2 more anniversaries

Marie Pešková, 1960s/70s

Marie Pešková

* 1958

Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

02 - Milada Pešková - portrait 2016

Milada Pešková

* 1921 †︎ 2019

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

With her one-year-old daughter Vladimíra

Pavlína Pešková

* 1929

Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Repatriated, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 22 May 1946 - Trial with K. H. Frank, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval

Věra Pešková, 1st half of the 1960s

Věra Pešková

* 1926

Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vlastimila Pešková 20 years old, 1961

PaedDr. Vlastimila Pešková

* 1941

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Dora Pešková in 1941

Dora Pešková, rozená Steinová

* 1921 †︎ 2020

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

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