26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

26. 4. 1986

Witness Marián Matyáš during eyd recording

Marián Matyáš

* 1951

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

Israeli Opera, 2000

Mgr. Serguei Nikitine

* 1961

Ukraine, Russia, Emigrant, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Israel/Palestine and 2 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Margareta Peck (right), Eibenthal, latter 1950s

Margareta Peck

* 1948

Czechs from Banat, National minorities, German minority in Romania, Political prisoner in Romania, Romania

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution

Military service, České Budějovice, 1970s

Monsignor Jan Peňáz

* 1951

Clergymen, Catholic clerical, Witness of local events from the Communist era

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad and 4 more anniversaries

Vladimír Pešek

* 1940

National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Václav Pišl after the military service at the beginning of 1970s

Václav Pišl

* 1948

Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Repatriated, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, Ukraine in 1986–1991 and 2 more anniversaries

Ladislav Plch standing as a model for his then girlfriend Kateřina Kučerová in 1970

Mgr. Ladislav Plch

* 1945

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Historian, Illegal border crossing, Journalist, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Antonina Ponomarenko, summer 2011

JUDr. Antonina Ponomarenko

* 1940

Victim of Nazi persecution in Ukraine, Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Political prisoner in WW2 and 3 more categories

Ukraine in 1990-s., Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine and 7 more anniversaries

Miroslav Prokeš

Miroslav Prokeš

* 1958

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Bohdan Ševčuk

Bohdan Ševčuk

* 1950

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Czech minority in the former USSR, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Repatriated and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, Ukraine in 1986–1991, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

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