Witnesses starting with letter D

Ioan Ioniţă, member of the anticommunist group Column VI, sentenced to 6 years

Vasile Dudeanu

* 1928

Romania, Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner in Romania

Witness Marie Dudová

Marie Dudová

* 1936

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

A photo of Marie Dudová of that time

Sestra Václava (Marie Dudová)

* 1947

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia

Pavel Dudr at the time he was imprisoned with Jaromír Němec

Pavel Dudr

* 1949

Dissident, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Zdeňka Dudrová during the filming

Zdeňka Dudrová

* 1939

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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Bohumír Dufek

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol

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

Photo from the active duty

Jiří Dufek

* 1932 †︎ 2018

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Communist official

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

Josef Dufek during his military service between 1967–1969 (smoking)

Josef Dufek

* 1948

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Joseph as a student

Josef Dufek

* 1929 †︎ 2022

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 5 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 6 more anniversaries

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Karel Dufek

* 1916 †︎ 2009

International Brigadiers, Communist official, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Veteran of WW2, western front

20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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