25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

25. 2. 1948

PhDr. Ivan Kaspar

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Participant in antifascist resistance, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Antonie Šimková (Kašparová)

Antonie Kašparová

* 1935

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, People helping Jews during WWII, Czech minority in the former USSR, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 6 more anniversaries

Viliam Kasperkevič

Viliam Kasperkevič

* 1929

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

Helena Kasperova in the sixties

Helena Kašperová

* 1948 †︎ 2023

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Jiří Kaštánek's graduation photograph, 1958

Jiří Kaštánek

* 1940

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Marta Kastnerová roz. Procházková

Marta Kastnerová

* 1931 †︎ 2023

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

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Marie Kastnerová shortly after the war

Marie Kastnerová

* 1927

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Radio Free Europe, 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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Karla Loevensteinová during WWII

Karla Katschnerová-Loevensteinová

* 1923 †︎ 2018

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Déclassé

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jan Kavan pictured on his British passport in the 1980s

Jan Kavan

* 1946

Diplomat, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, The relative of a political prisoner, A secret police collaborator and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 8 more anniversaries

As a soldier in 1950

Mgr. Josef Kavka

* 1930

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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