Witnesses starting with letter P

Anastasis Pomakis

Anastasis Pomakis

* 1951

Greece, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war

portrait

Pater Michal František Pometlo

* 1935

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Representative of the Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Rudolf Pompe -1952

Rudolf Pompe

* 1933

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, The relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Ponikelský Vladimír

Captain (ret.) Vladimír Ponikelský

* 1923 †︎ 2015

1945 - portrait

Jenovefa Poňuchálková

* 1924

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Farmer

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 2 more anniversaries

Zoryan Popadyuk, Myroslav Marynovych and Oleksiy Smyrnov in 1987

Zoryan Popadyuk Зорян Попадюк

* 1953

Ukraine, Ukrainian Dissent, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Politician

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

Jiří Popel

* 1955

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts and 5 more categories

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Slávek Popelka - photo taken at graduation

Jaroslav Popelka

* 1956

Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, The relative of a political prisoner

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, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

A group of scouts was entrusted with guarding German prisoners of war while filling in craters after the bombing of Pardubice airport - Vladimír Popelka, Pardubice, April 1946

Vladimír Popelka

* 1932

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

Marie Popelková

Marie Popelková

* 1931

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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