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1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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List of witnesses


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Zuzana Bacigálová (1930) video clip available

born at Orava, Slovakia in 1930 married Ľudovít Bacigál and moved to Senec near Bratislava, where her husband bought 15 hectares of arable land in 1952, her husband along with three other peasants was sentenced for a criminal offence of sabotage to seven years of ... arrows 


Brian Bennett (1948)

born in 1948 in Portsmouth since his youth, he was very political. He lobbied for the Labour Party studied Russian and also learnt Czech joined the Foreign office and was placed to Prague in 1973 his job was to read through newspapers, meet journalists and ... arrows 


First Lieutenant (ret.) Jan Bugel (1923) video clip available

born August 23rd 1923 in Kalniště in Slovakia 1943 basic military service in Prešov, assists the commander, then as a messenger in the unit 1944 move to Poprad and Banská Bystrica, from there sent to the mountains and bunkers with military supplies August 1944 ... arrows 


Leopold Färber (1928)

born in Stará Halič in Slovakia on October 31, 1928, grew up in Boskovice his father was a Jew, his mother a devout Catholic - their mixed marriage saved them from their deportation to the annihilation camp as a boy, Leopold, nicknamed Hurvínek, acted as a ... arrows 


Jaroslav Grosman (1924)

born 13th August 1924, Roztoky by Jilemnice 1944, forced labour in the Daimler-Benz factory in Nová Paka illegally crossed the borders to Poland, crossed the Eastern Front and was captured by the Red Army; accused of espionage, sentenced to prison; escaped during ... arrows 


Miroslav Hampl (1932)

born on September 16th, 1932 in Křelová by Olomouc studied to be a shoe-maker in Baťa’s school in Zlín after February 1948 he went to work as a collector in Jáchymov mines in Jáchymov, he helped prisoner Bohuslav Pánek to escape he was arrested on November ... arrows 


Jindřich Hašek (1934)

born September 6th 1934 in Úhonice near Prague in a family of a farmer studied for two years at the secondary school of agriculture in Poděbrady, 1952 expelled 1952 to 1953 doing forced labour on a state farm in the Osoblaha region together with other children of ... arrows 


Petr Hauptmann (1946)

born on August 7, 1946 studied architecture and in early 70’s, he started to work at the State institute for reconstruction of historic towns and buildings, later he found a job at the customs office during a process of approval of a new bridge over a border ... arrows 


Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jiří Horák (1919)

born July 27th 1919 in Poděbrady March 15th 1939 applied to the Czechoslovak Embassy in London as a volunteer for the army May 1940 - drafted, sent to Agde, assigned to the artillery June 1940 – after the fall of France went back to England, again in the ... arrows 


Hedvika Hurníková (1926)

born in Hora Sv. Šebestiána in the Krušné hory (Erzgebirge) on April 13th, 1926 her parents were Germans of social-democratic thinking family persecuted by the Nazis after the Sudetes occupation in 1938 family moved to Chomutov after 1940 she got the total ... arrows 


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