Witnesses starting with letter S

Josef Svoboda several months before his arrest / 1949

Josef Svoboda

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Boy Scouts, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 2 more anniversaries

Eighteen-year-old Josef Svoboda in the army

Josef Svoboda

* 1926

Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in antifascist resistance, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Farmer

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces

Josef Svoboda

Josef Svoboda

* 1923

Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in WW2

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

A soldier Ludek Svoboda

Luděk Svoboda

* 1933

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Portrait, 2018

JUDr. Martin Svoboda

* 1968

Witness of local events from the Communist era

Palach Week

Miroslav Svoboda in 1976

Miroslav Svoboda

* 1962

Literature in exile, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, The underground, Life along the Iron Curtain and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Tomáš Svoboda, 1980s

Tomáš Svoboda

* 1947

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

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

a retro picture of Tomáš Svoboda

RNDr. Tomáš Svoboda

* 1959

Member of an Illegal Church, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ing. Václav Svoboda

* 1929 †︎ 2019

Déclassé, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Vladimír "Metud" Svoboda in 1989

Vladimír „Metud“ Svoboda

* 1966

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, The underground

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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