Witnesses starting with letter S

Marta Sandtnerová

Marta Sandtnerová

* 1929 †︎ 2024

Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

The witness with her mother, circa 1941-42

Ilsa Sanetrníková

* 1937

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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

Andrei Sannikov, Prague, 2024

Andrei Sannikov Андрей Санников

* 1954

Political prisoner, Belarus, Diplomat, Dissident, Politician

Santa Cruz Pacheco Cedeño Ramón

Ramón Santa Cruz Pacheco Cedeño

* 1939

Cuba, Dissident, Emigrant, Cuban Dissident, Cuban Exile

Cuba after 1959, Cuba before 1959, Dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)

Jan Sapák v roce 1976-1977

Ing., Arch. Jan Sapák

* 1957

Politician, Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity

18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 4 more anniversaries

As a "dandy"

Lubomír Sapoušek

* 1957

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Life along the Iron Curtain

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 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, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation and 7 more anniversaries

Portrait, 1960s

Jana Sargánková

* 1940

Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners

Ashot Sargsyan, 2023

Ashot Sargsyan Աշոտ Սարգսյան

* 1951

Armenia

Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Vojtěch Sasín, a soldier, 1951

Vojtěch Sasín

* 1929 †︎ 2021

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Member of Orel

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death and 2 more anniversaries

Emília Sasinová

* 1936

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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