Witnesses starting with letter B

Aurel Baghiu in 1963, shortly after his release

Aurel Baghiu

* 1929 †︎ 2010

Romania, Political prisoner in Romania

1956 - student protests in Timisoara (Rumania), 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

František Bahník

František Bahník

* 1919 †︎ 2002

Boy Scouts

Václav Bahník in his youth

Master of Fine Arts Václav Bahník

* 1954

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r and 1 more anniversaries

Ingeborg Bahrová

Ingeborg Bahrová

* 1933 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Emil Baierl as a child

Emil Baierl

* 1933

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Memory of vanished settlements, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Josef Baierl at home

Josef Baierl

* 1942

Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

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

Gabriela Bairová - Stoyanová, 1981

Gabriela Bairova-Stoyanova

* 1955

National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Victim of forced relocation, Bulgaria

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 10.11.1989 - The Transition from communism to democracy in Bulgaria

Alena Baizeau in 1990

Alena Baizeau

* 1946

Emigrant, France

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

Jiřina Bajborová

Second Lieutenant Jiřina Bajborová

* 1925 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

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Professor Růžena Bajcsy

* 1933

Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

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