Life along the Iron Curtain

Jiří Kaštánek's graduation photograph, 1958

Jiří Kaštánek

* 1940

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, 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 - 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

Jiří Kleker

Jiří Kleker

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 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, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat and 2 more anniversaries

Jiří Kleker during his mandatory military service in Mikulov 1977

Private First Class Jiří Kleker

* 1957

Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ema Kletzenbauerová née Zikova during confirmation

Ema Kletzenbauerová

* 1931

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Déclassé, Border Guards, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 3 more anniversaries

Marie Klimešová, 1978

Professor, PhDr. Marie Klimešová

* 1952

Boy Scouts, Art and censorship, Artists, Life along the Iron Curtain

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

František Klišík in 2023

František Klišík

* 1963

Human Rights Defender, Dissident, National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements and 7 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, Palach Week, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída and 2 more anniversaries

Miroslav Kočica

Miroslav Kočica

* 1955

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing

Portrait in Forest Hills, Queens, October 14, 2023

Antonín Kocurek Corporal

* 1957

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Clergymen, United States of America, Member of an Illegal Church, Catholic clerical and 3 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia and 1 more anniversaries

With huge "bells" on his pants in the Canadian city of Moncton (province of New Brunswick), 1978

Jan Köhler

* 1950

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army and 2 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Pěvuše Kohoutová

Pěvuše Kohoutová

* 1920 †︎ 2024

Déclassé, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Life along the Iron Curtain

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

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