Witnesses starting with letter Š

Contemporary portrait photograph of Václav Štěpán

Václav Štěpán

* 1935 †︎ 2023

Historian, A secret police collaborator, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

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

Zdeněk Štěpán, a graduation photo, 1957

Zdeněk Štěpán

* 1939

Politician, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 3. 1945 Bombing of České Budějovice, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r and 2 more anniversaries

Boleslav Štěpánek

Master Sergeant (ret.) Boleslav Štěpánek

* 1920 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Sanitary worker during the World War 2

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Karel Štěpánek in Svoboda army

Karel Štěpánek

* 1907 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Michal Štěpánek around 1967

Michal Štěpánek

* 1953

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Theresienstadt Ghetto

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Milan Štěpánek

* 1929

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, A secret police collaborator, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák

Václav Štěpánek as 18 years old

Doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek Ph.D.

* 1959

Environmentalist, Historian, Journalist, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, Vznik nezávislého odborové hnutí Solidarita, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1992 - 1995 Bosnian War

Anita with her older sister Anna in Loutka (1946)

Anita Štěpánková

* 1944

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Memory of vanished settlements, Relative of a political prisoner, Sudeten Germans and 1 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Her parents in 1945

Eva Štěpánková

* 1948

Communist official, National minorities, Déclassé, Relative of a political prisoner

20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Marie Štěpánková

Marie Štěpánková

* 1929 †︎ 2020

Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

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