Witnesses starting with letter P

self-portrait 1946

MUDr. Vladimír Piskáček

* 1929

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jaroslava Piskáčková

Jaroslava Piskáčková

* 1935

Sokol, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jaromír Piskoř in 1980s

Jaromír Piskoř

* 1962

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, The underground, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Politician

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Václav Pišl after the military service at the beginning of 1970s

Václav Pišl

* 1948

Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, Ukraine in 1986–1991 and 2 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Pišoft

Jaroslav Pišoft

* 1937

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

Maxmiliána Píšová in the 1950s

Maxmiliána Píšová

* 1931

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Zbyněk Pišťák while in the air force - on leave in Mukačevo, 1937

Zbyněk Pišťák

* 1915 †︎ 2014

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Milan “Fred” Pištek as a “mánička” in the early 1970s

Milan Pištěk

* 1956

Déclassé, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground and 5 more categories

19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall and 1 more anniversaries

Petr Pištěk

Petr Pištěk

* 1953

Political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Theodor Pištěk in 2017

Theodor Pištěk

* 1932 †︎ 2025

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

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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