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

17. 11. 1989-29. 12. 1989

Portrait in Forest Hills, Queens, October 14, 2023

Antonín Kocurek Corporal

* 1957

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Clergymen, United States of America, Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia and 1 more anniversaries

Eva Kodadová at work in the Mining Hospital with Polyclinic in 1975

Eva Kodadová

* 1944

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Karel Kodejška competing in his birth town Lomnice nad Popelkou during his military service in Dukla Banská Bystrica (probably in 1966)

Major (ret.) Karel Kodejška

* 1947

The Sportsmen, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

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

1967

Michal Kodíček

* 1946

Emigrant, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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

Helena Koenigsmark at the time of her graduation, 1972

Helena Koenigsmarková

* 1947

Relative of a political prisoner, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Dissident, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Hana Kofránková

* 1949

A cultural celebrity

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”

Archive photo

Ondřej Kohout

* 1953

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, Charter 77 signatory, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Štěpán Kohout Štěpána Kohouta

Štěpán Kohout

* 1969

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Václav Kohout in 2023

Václav Kohout

* 1925

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Kohoutová Taťána, 2014

Taťána Kohoutová

* 1938

Holocaust, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin

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