Witnesses starting with letter R

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Miroslav Riessner

* 1928 †︎ 2018

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Róbert Rigó

* 1953

Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Gypsies / Roma, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Soldier in the Border Guard - 1966

Tomáš Rimpel

* 1946 †︎ 2024

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Border Guards, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

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

Markus Rindt with instrument

Markus Rindt

* 1967

Germany, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, East German Refugee, A cultural celebrity, Life along the Iron Curtain

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 3.10.1990 - Reunification of Germany

Otto Rinke Jr in the military mid 1960s

Ing. Otto Rinke

* 1943 †︎ 2020

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

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

Jana Rinkeová in 1969

Mgr. Jana Rinkeová

* 1946

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

With guerrilla badge

Ján Rišian

* 1928

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, The Partisan

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

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Sonja Ritoša (Grubić)

* 1933

Croatia, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Jan Rob SDB 17

Ing. Jan Rob

* 1914 †︎ 2018

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions) and 1 more categories

13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Aleksandre Robakidze

Aleksandre Robakidze

* 1913 †︎ 1994

Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Georgia

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