Svědci Jehovovi

Churches and religious societies

Jiří Beneš in 2019

Doc., Dr., Th.D. Jiří Beneš

* 1961

Non-Catholic clerical, Svědci Jehovovi, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Dieter Groffig - foto z vazby 1953

Dieter Groffig

* 1933

Germany, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Political prisoner in the GDR and 3 more categories

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 17.6.1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall

Jan Jiřička, 1957

Ing. Jan Jiřička

* 1938

Boy Scouts, Svědci Jehovovi, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Member of an Illegal Church

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák

Zlata Kaprálová in Budapest, 1984

Zlata Kaprálová

* 1957

Anti-communist rebel, Svědci Jehovovi, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

The witness as a young boy, around the turn of the 50s and 60s

Ing. Jiří Kubík

* 1941

Member of an Illegal Church, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Svědci Jehovovi, Witness of local events from the Communist era, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945

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

Ladislav Kukla

* 1943

Relative of a political prisoner, Svědci Jehovovi, Art and censorship

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising

Květa Málková in 2019

Květoslava Málková

* 1944

Member of an Illegal Church, Svědci Jehovovi, 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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Pavel Odehnal in 1975

Pavel Odehnal

* 1953

Svědci Jehovovi, Member of an Illegal Church, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ester Pokorná

* 1939

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Relative of a political prisoner, Svědci Jehovovi, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Portrait of V. Sloup in the studion during the filming

Vladislav Sloup

* 1950

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Svědci Jehovovi, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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