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

17. 11. 1989-29. 12. 1989

František Stránský, 1970s

František Stránský

* 1946

Relatives of important personalities, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Oldřich Stránský

Oldřich Stránský

* 1921 †︎ 2014

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 3 more anniversaries

The witness in the Hviezda cinema in Bratislava at the assembly of students of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, November 24, 1989

Mgr. Boris Strečanský

* 1967

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Jiří Středa in the 1970s

Jiří Středa

* 1956

Chechens, Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing and 7 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial and 3 more anniversaries

Current photo

Professor Jindřich Štreit

* 1946

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Art and censorship, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Artists, A cultural celebrity

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

Drahuše Stříhavková (nee Stehlíková), 1949

Drahuše Stříhavková

* 1930

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 5 more anniversaries

Vojtěch Stříteský's speech on November 3, 1989

Vojtěch Stříteský

* 1961

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

Eva Střížková

Mgr. Eva Střížková

* 1935

Political prisoner in WW2, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 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, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Drahomír Strnadel in 1944

Drahomír Strnadel

* 1941

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Alexandra Strnadová, the early 1950s

Alexandra Strnadová

* 1949

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

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

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