Stories of the 20th Century TV

Post Bellum / Hlavní město Praha / Česká televize

The recordings were taken on two movie cameras in a mobile TV studio, using the Eye Direct technology.

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Eva Warausová

* 1932

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Jarmila Weinbergerová dance class for 1938

MUDr. Jarmila Weinbergerová

* 1923 †︎ 2020

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden and 1 more anniversaries

dobový portrét.jpg (historic)

Ing. Pavel Werner

* 1932 †︎ 2017

A secret police collaborator, Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

Vlasta Wernerová, née Vyleťalová

Vlasta Wernerová

* 1943

Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial

Magdalena Westman in 1977

Magdalena Westman

* 1958

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

A contemporary picture - after his release from prison

František Wiendl

* 1923

Illegal border crossing, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance and 3 more categories

10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia and 7 more anniversaries

Photo model for portrait by painter Lutobor Hlavsa, 1963

Zuzana Wienerová

* 1944

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Marcel Winter in 1959

Marcel Winter

* 1948

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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

Nicholas Winton, Jr., Prague 2022

Nicholas Winton, Jr.

* 1952

People helping Jews during WWII, Relatives of important personalities, Winton’s Children, United Kingdom

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR

Svetlana Wittmannová, c. 1983

Světlana Wittmannová

* 1961

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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