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Portrét z roku 1944

Jana Štroblová

* 1936 †︎ 2025

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Writer

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Dmitrij Strocev

Mgr. Dmitrij Strocev

* 1963

Refugee, Belarus, Writer

Peter Stuchlík with his sister Katrin on a holiday in Bulgaria, 1964

Peter Stuchlík

* 1958

Scientist, People helping Jews during WWII, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Jarka Šulcová (née Stuchlíková) in uniform of the Czechoslovak State Airlines (around 1958)

Jaroslava Stuchlíková

* 1938

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jaroslav Suk 1979, photo by Jan Bednář

Jaroslav Suk

* 1948

Charter 77 signatory, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Journalist, Victim of forced relocation and 5 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Photo from the witness's teaching years in Hradec Králové - sometime after 1970

Vladimíra Sůvová

* 1940

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Period portrait of Pavel Švanda

Professor Pavel Švanda

* 1936

Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Marie Svatošová, graduation photo, 1961

MUDr. Marie Svatošová

* 1942

Writer

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Bohumil Svoboda

PhDr. Bohumil Svoboda

* 1924 †︎ 2020

Member of an Illegal Church, Journalist, Politician, Writer, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 3 more categories

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ladislav Szalay during shooting

Ladislav Szalay

* 1929 †︎ 2025

People helping Jews during WWII, Déclassé, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Scientist

9. - 10. 11. 1938 Crystal Night, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

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