Life along the Iron Curtain

Photho from Marián Jurčák ID

Ing. Marián Jurčák

* 1947

Member of an Illegal Church, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, National minorities, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Mária Jurčová

* 1934

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

Lviv in the times of the Second World War 1939-1945, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

František Kaberle Senior in the Poldi SONP Kladno jersey

František Kaberle

* 1951

The Sportsmen, 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

Vladimír Kaiser, standing right, greets a group of archive science students in Kadaň with a colleague, both wearing theatre costumes, 1981

PhDr. Vladimír Kaiser

* 1954

Historian, Politician, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity and 1 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Zdeněk Kohn shortly before the transport to the concentration camp, 1941

Zdeněk Kalenský

* 1935

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hidden people, Life along the Iron Curtain

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Oldřich Kalousek 2014

Oldřich Kalousek

* 1933

Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Pavel Kalus

Pavel Kalus

* 1958

Relatives of important personalities, Non-Catholic clerical, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Michal Kaňa as a young man

Michal Kaňa

* 1953

Representative of the Church, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Catholic clerical and 10 more categories

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 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, 1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence and 1 more anniversaries

Oldřich Karásek during a shooting for Memory of Nations, Zlín, 2022

Oldřich Karásek

* 1933 †︎ 2024

Emigrant, People helping Jews during WWII, Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, Writer and 3 more categories

12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Kaše in his youth

Ing. Josef Kaše

* 1944

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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