Witnesses starting with letter P

Polanská Eva

Eva Polanská

* 1933

Boy Scouts, Sokol

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Ivan Polanský

Ivan Polanský

* 1936 †︎ 2015

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Member of an Illegal Church, Radio Free Europe

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Karel Polanský, 1968

Karel Polanský

* 1945

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Colonel (ret.) Lukáš Polanský

* 1925

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia)

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Bohumil Polášek

* 1923

Kateřina Polášková

Kateřina Polášková

* 1922

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, The Partisan, Red Army soldier, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Marie Polášková

Marie Polášková

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Gertruda Polčáková

Gertruda Polčáková

* 1936

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Young Jindřich

Jindřich Poledňa

* 1934

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

Zuzka Polesny Eggen, portrait in Mladá Boleslav

Zuzka Polesny Eggena

* 1938

United States of America, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Czech community in the US and 7 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 29. 7. - 14. 8. 1948 Summer Olympics in London

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