Witnesses starting with letter B

Photo from 1992

John Bok

* 1945

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77 and 2 more anniversaries

Bernard Bokor in a PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) uniform

Bernard Bokor

* 1924 †︎ 2013

Representative of the Church, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Catholic clerical

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle” and 2 more anniversaries

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Ruth Bondyová

* 1923 †︎ 2017

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Emigrant, A cultural celebrity, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine and 3 more categories

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

Hanuš Bor

* 1950

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, Art and censorship, A cultural celebrity

25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 8. - 9. března 1944 - Hromadná vražda vězňů tzv. Terezínského rodinného táb, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 1 more anniversaries

Mrs. Borecká (cca 1960)

Jiřina Borecká

* 1935

National minorities, Sudeten Germans

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Antonín Bořek Dohalský retro.jpg (historic)

Hrabě Antonín Bořek-Dohalský

* 1944 †︎ 2017

Déclassé, Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 1 more categories

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Jiří Boreš, 2023

Jiří Boreš

* 1948

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Charter 77 signatory, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 2 more anniversaries

Hana Borgströmová, 2020, current photography

Hana Borgströmová

* 1939

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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Gizela Boriková

* 1927

National minorities, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Witness Hedviga Bôriková as a 15 years old

Hedviga Bôriková

* 1934 †︎ 2022

Holocaust, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, The Partisan and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

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