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

21. 8. 1968

Milena Šatavová with parents

Milena Šatavová

* 1932 †︎ 2023

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Relatives of important personalities, Royal Air Force

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Alena Satynková

* 1936

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

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Giorgio Savo, 1990

Giorgio Savo

* 1940

Italy, Croatia, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence, 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

Lubomír Sazovský / Ostrava / June 2019

Lubomír Sazovský

* 1956

Boy Scouts, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Bedřich Ščerban during filming

Bedřich Ščerban

* 1964

The Sportsmen

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

Bedrich with his wife

Bedřich Schalek

* 1913

Veteran of WW2, western front, Emigrant, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Charlotte Scharfová (sitting second from the bottom right) in a primary school in her native Albrechtice, turn of the 1940s and 1950s

Charlotte Scharfová

* 1938

Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 2 more anniversaries

ČSSR representative Pavel Schenk

Pavel Schenk

* 1941

The Sportsmen

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich

Edvard Schiffauer in mid-1960s

Edvard Schiffauer

* 1942

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, A cultural celebrity, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Musician Lubomir Schimmer

Lubomír Schimmer

* 1939

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, A cultural celebrity

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 1 more anniversaries

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