Witnesses starting with letter Č

Miroslav Čeřenský

Miloslav Čeřenský

* 1918

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Political prisoner in WW2, Relatives of important personalities, Prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp

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

Bojan Čermák in the 60s

Bojan Čermák

* 1941

Boy Scouts, The Sportsmen, Scientist

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

Jan Čermák

Jan Čermák

* 1933 †︎ 2011

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Jaroslav Čermák in 50s

Jaroslav Čermák

* 1929 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, Agent of the western secret services (cold war) and 2 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Jiří Čermák during filming for Memory of Nations, 2023

Ing. Jiří Čermák

* 1937

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Čermák in the youth

Josef Čermák

* 1952

Representative of the Church, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Josef Čermák

Josef Čermák

* 1924

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Journalist and 3 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš and 2 more anniversaries

Witness with his granddaughter in 1997

Josef Čermák

* 1938

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Graduation picture of Lumír Čermák from May 1943

Lumír Čermák

* 1923

Boy Scouts, Forced labour during the WW2, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Marko Čermák plays a 110-year-old banjo originally from London, TV Country and Western, 1990

Marko Čermák

* 1940

Art and censorship, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists, A cultural celebrity

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

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