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Luděk Bukač

Luděk Bukač

* 1935 †︎ 2019

Secret police informer, The Sportsmen, University professor

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 4 more anniversaries

Jan Burian, filming for the Memory of Nations, Prague, 2022

Jan Burian

* 1952

A cultural celebrity, Relatives of important personalities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter” and 3 more anniversaries

Přemysl Burian, 2023

Přemysl Burian

* 1950

Relatives of important personalities, Witness of local events from the Communist era

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation and 1 more anniversaries

Václava Buriánová at the time of the trial, 1957

Václava Buriánová

* 1928

Political prisoner, Sokol

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Jiří Buřič

* 1952

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jaroslava Buřičová in 2023

Jaroslava Buřičová

* 1929

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

24. 10. 1942 - poprava 261 československých odbojářů v KT Mauthausen, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Zdzisław Bykowski in 1973

Zdzisław Antoni Bykowski

* 1947

Poland, Dissident, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, Výjimečný stav v Polsku, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hubert Bystřičan in the military service, 1963

Hubert Bystřičan

* 1942

Witness of local events from the Communist era

9. 12. 1944 attack on the guerrilla bunker in Morávka village, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 2 more anniversaries

Václavka on graduation photo

Václavka Caithamlová

* 1947

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Marie Čálková, 1940s

Marie Čálková

* 1927

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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