Witnesses starting with letter B

Aleš Bouda speaking during the events of the Velvet Revolution in November 1989 in Trutnov

Mgr. Ing. Aleš Bouda

* 1947

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

1955-00-00-32 Alois.JPG (historic)

Alois Bouda

* 1932

A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Art and censorship, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school

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, 24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Josef Bouda, filming for Memory of Nations, Kraslice, March 2024

Josef Bouda

* 1939

Czechs from Banat, National minorities

1951 - Deportation from Banat to Baragan (Romania), 16. 12. 1989 - 24-25. 12. 1989 - The Romanian revolution, 1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split

Jiří Bouše in 2022

Jiří Bouše

* 1934

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Milan Bouška (on the right), 1980s

Milan Bouška

* 1955

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Bouz

First Lieutenant (ret.) Vladimír Bouz

* 1924 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, A warder in a communist prison, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs and 4 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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 and 3 more anniversaries

Václav Bouzek

Corporal Václav Bouzek

* 1923 †︎ 2014

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

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

Hana in her maturita photo, Benešov 1953

PhDr. Hana Bouzková

* 1935

Boy Scouts, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Déclassé

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 1989 - Third renewal of Junák

Záviš Bozděch

Záviš Bozděch

* 1929 †︎ 2024

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts

1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák

The village Kyrylivka in the 1930s. Probably a school photo

Marija Mychajlivna Bozhko

* 1946

Ukraine, National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, Poles in the USSR 1945 - 1956, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands) and 2 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

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