Life along the Iron Curtain

Jaroslav Smetana

* 1939 †︎ 2023

Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Bohumila Šmolíková, née Pytlíková’s wedding photo, 1954

Bohumila Šmolíková

* 1934

Relatives of important personalities, The relative of a political prisoner, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou and 5 more anniversaries

Ladislav Snopko

Ladislav Snopko

* 1949

Environmentalist, Politician, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Eržika Sojková in 1967

Eržika Sojková

* 1949

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ondřej Šteffl, 1976

RNDr., CSc. Ondřej Šteffl

* 1954

Holocaust, The relative of a political prisoner, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

Ivo Stehlík in 2023

Ing. Ivo Stehlík

* 1963

Environmentalist, Historian, Politician, Relatives of important personalities, Writer and 4 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

In Mariánské lázně

Professor, PhDr. Miloš Stehlík

* 1923

Historian, Catholic clerical, Forced labour during the WW2, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Marta Stehlíková in 2021

Marta Stehlíková

* 1950

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation

Jiří Štěpnička, a portrait

Jiří Štěpnička

* 1947

The relative of a political prisoner, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Bedřich Stigler

Bedřich Stigler

* 1960

Boy Scouts, The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r

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