Life along the Iron Curtain

Jiří Löwy in the army, just before his return to civilian life

Jiří Löwy

* 1957

Representative of the Church, Holocaust, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relatives of important personalities, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Karin Macháčková, Děčín, 1961

Karin Macháčková

* 1943

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Communist official, Déclassé, Industrial settler in border region in 60' and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic and 5 more anniversaries

Mgr. Václav Majer

* 1930

Holocaust, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Emigrants from Russia, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 3 more categories

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 6 more anniversaries

Vladimír Martinec at the peak of his hockey career in 1976, when he became the best forward of the World Championships in Katowice

Mgr. Vladimír Martinec

* 1949

The Sportsmen, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Parents of Darina Martinovská Josef and Božena with the witness as a child

PaedDr. Darina Martinovská

* 1947

Writer, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Volhynian Czechs, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner and 3 more categories

13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín, 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, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

Photo for the photo-album of school-leavers of the Vimperk Forestry School, 1967

Jan Märtl

* 1947

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Ctirad Mašín in the late 1940s

Ctirad Mašín

* 1930 †︎ 2011

Anti-communist rebel, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Participant in antifascist resistance, 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, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 4 more anniversaries

Photograph, January 2014

Manfred Matthies

* 1941

Germany, Illegal border crossing, GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR, East German Refugee and 2 more categories

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Jaromír Mergl in his youth

Jaromír Mergl

* 1962

Relative of a political prisoner, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, The underground, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 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, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Cyril Michalica in the Auxiliary Technical Battalions

Cyril Michalica

* 1933

Illegal border crossing, Underage political prisoners, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) and 4 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

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