23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

23. 10. 1956-11. 11. 1956

Václav Novák

Václav Novák

* 1928

Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

Bálint Ordódy in Visegrád

Bálint Ordódy

* 1931

Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Emigrant, Déclassé, Radio Free Europe

1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war , 1946-1949 nationalization of private enterprises and institutions in Hungary, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Tibor Pákh

Tibor Pákh

* 1924

Hungary, Member of the Hungarian democratic underground, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Political prisoner in the Kádár era, Anti-communist rebel

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 1989 - Transition in Hungary

Anton Pasternák

* 1948

Holocaust, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Witness Peter Plichta

Peter Plichta

* 1948 †︎ 2023

Hungary, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945 and 3 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter” and 2 more anniversaries

Oliver Rácz with his sister Katarína

doc. PhDr. MUDr. CSc. Oliver Rácz

* 1947

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Scientist, University professor and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 4 more anniversaries

Dimitri Rafalský 2017

Dimitri Rafalský

* 1930 †︎ 2021

Emigrant, National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Emigrants from Russia, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Anna Rákóczi, 1964

Anna Rákóczi

* 1957

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

László Regéczy-Nagy after 1956

László Regéczy-Nagy

* 1925 †︎ 2021

Hungary, Active in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, Political prisoner in the Kádár era, Hungarian army soldier during 2WW

23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Oldřich Řičánek at film studios in Gottwaldov, early 1960s

Oldřich Řičánek

* 1936

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

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