Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

Political prisoners

Anton Adámek

Anton Adámek

* 1930

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Juraj Anoškin

Juraj Anoškin

* 1930

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Libuše Audrlická in a period photo

Libuše Audrlická

* 1924

Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

M. Benda- period portrait

Miloslav Benda

* 1919

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zbyněk Bezděk as an aspirant at the officer's school in Bruntál - 1946

Zbyněk Bezděk

* 1918 †︎ 2015

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in WW2, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jozef Bobalik

Jozef Bobalik

* 1928 †︎ 2021

Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Alois Bradáč, photo from a military book, 1960s

Alois Bradáč

* 1943

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954) and 1 more categories

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, Reemigration of Czechs and Slovaks from Romania to Czechoslovakia (1945 - 1949)

Václav Bradáč, Gerník, 80s

Václav Bradáč

* 1950

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Farmer and 1 more categories

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, Reemigration of Czechs and Slovaks from Romania to Czechoslovakia (1945 - 1949)

Ján Brichta dobová.jpg (historic)

Ján Brichta

* 1928

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

Tomáš Cahel in Poteč in 1970

Tomáš Cahel

* 1963

Relative of a political prisoner, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Farmer

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

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