Witnesses starting with letter Z

Photo after the arrival to New York in 1952

Professor, Dr. Vladimír Zbořílek

* 1924

Emigrant, Forced labour during the WW2, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Marie Zbořilová during the filming for Memory of Nations, 13 July 2023, Náměšt' na Hané

Marie Zbořilová

* 1926 †︎ 2023

Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Contemporary photograph of the histrionic man, Vlado Zboroň.

Vladimír Zboroň

* 1960

Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Portrait

Přemysl Zdeněk

* 1946

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

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

Marta Zděnková in 1952

Marta Zděnková

* 1944

Victim of forced relocation

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Václav Zdráhal in 1969

Josef Zdráhal

* 1951

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Anti-communist rebel, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Marie and Dr. Ing. Artur Zdráhal in front of Karolinum (1970s)

Marie Zdráhalová

* 1951

Dissident, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Charter 77 signatory, Sudeten Germans

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

The witness around 2000

Vlasta Zdráhalová

* 1921

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

2.jpg (historic)

Josef Zdražil

* 1944

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia

September - November 1991 - Battle of Vukovar

Zdražilová Alžběta

Alžběta Zdražilová

* 1928

Holocaust, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 1 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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