Witnesses starting with letter V

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Petr Vránek

* 1953

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

Pavel Vranský - period photo

Major Pavel Vranský

* 1921 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 1 more categories

21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign

Jitka Vrátníková in Canada in 1981

Jitka Vrátníková

* 1948

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Jan Vrátný in 2022

Jan Vrátný

* 1938 †︎ 2023

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

Jan Vrba

Jan Vrba

* 1931

Holocaust, Underage political prisoners, Gypsies / Roma, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Jan Vrba in 2024

Ing. Jan Vrba

* 1947

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

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Vrba

* 1932 †︎ 2019

Anti-communist rebel, Sokol, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Chairman Jiří Vrba, who has worked in Slavia for almost 20 years, undated

Ing. Jiří Vrba

* 1930 †︎ 2024

The Sportsmen, Holocaust, A secret police collaborator, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21 September 1937 - Funeral of President Masaryk and 2 more anniversaries

Linus Vrba in 2025

Linus Vrba

* 1929

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Portrait of the witness as a youg man

Tomáš Vrba

* 1947

Dissident, Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, Charter 77 signatory, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 3 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída

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