Witnesses starting with letter V

Štěpán Vašíček in the battle dress

Štěpán Vašíček

* 1927 †︎ 2017

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR)

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle”

Tomislav Vašíček

* 1941

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans)

Jiřina Vašíčková fifteen years old

Jiřina Vašíčková

* 1922

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Róbert Vasiliak as a high school student

Mgr. Róbert Vasiliak

* 1949

The Sportsmen

Michal Vasilko, 1944

Michal Vasilko

* 1924 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, The Partisan, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Portrait

Miloslav Vašina

* 1946 †︎ 2017

Charter 77 signatory, Non-Catholic clerical, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Petr Vašina

* 1953

Relative of a political prisoner, 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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Čestmír Vaško

Čestmír Vaško

* 1935

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ivan Vasko

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Ivan Vasko

* 1928 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Red Army soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, The liberation of the city of Ostrava

Marie Vašková, the beginning of the 1960s

Marie Vašková

* 1941

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

The liberation of the city of Ostrava, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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