8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš (5)
25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR (144)
1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age (145)
19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering (4)
23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation (25)
24. 2. 1949 – Formation of the Czechoslovak Union of Youth (5)
21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka (10)
11. 12. 1949 – The “Čihošť Miracle” (2)
31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial (10)
8. - 11. 10. 1950 - Trial against F.A.Stříteský, head of the piarist dormitory in Litomyšl (4)
13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks (8)
20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial (4)
30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval (10)
22. – 29. 4. 1956 – 2nd Congress of Czech Writers (1)
9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners (21)
born on 5th October 1936 in the family of a farmer Rudolf Šabata and his wife Růžena
father entered the agricultural cooperative only under the pressure of circumstances in the beginning of 1960s
due to her origin not allowed to study the school of her choice, ...
Born in Třešť in Moravia in 1931
Lived in Slovakia with his parents
After the occupation they had to return to the Czech Lands, studied in Prague
At High School he established ‘Union of Freedom of Students’, distributed pamphlets
In the Summer of 1948 was ...
daughter of Stanislav Procházka, blacksmith and member of the resistance group Lenka-south
her father hid the renegade gamekeeper František Vitouš, who was in turn wanted for hiding three paratroopers. Vitouš hid with various people, but the longest stay, from ...
born February 21st, 1928 in Suchý Důl near Police nad Metují
1949 accepted into the Benedictine Order
April 1950 interned in Hejnice
joined the Auxiliary Technical Battalions
from 1954, worked mainly as manual worker
from 1968 studied at a theological ...
Catholic priest, studied theology in Rome in 30's, also ordained there
spent the war in the Protectorate, chaplain in Příbram and at the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord in Prague-Vinohrady
after the war, vicerector of the Catholic seminar in Prague
1950 interned ...
born July 20, 1928 in Prague in a middle-class family
during the depression era the family was unemployed
forming experience from the period of the Munich conference, occupation and the Prague Uprising
in the 1940s and 1950s a poet-apologist of the regime in ...
1929 born in Brno in Bystrc
1948 entered the Jesuit novitiate
1950 break-up of the Jesuit Order
1950-54 military service in the PTP
1954-68 work in a factory producing gas-flow-meters, then laborer in arms factory
1968 ordained a priest by Felix Davídek ...
A political prisoner and a Roman-Catholic priest born on January 7, 1924, in Prague
His father Bohumil was a construction worker, his mother Anastázie died of tuberculosis when he was 11 years old
He attended grammar school at the time of the occupation of ...
born on 6th November 1932 in Kunovice in the Uherské Hradiště region
at the age of nearly 17 made his first attempt to flee abroad with a friend
in Austria persuaded by a communist spy to return to Czechoslovakia
four months imprisoned in Uherské Hradiště
26 ...
born on 20th July 1926 to a workers family
aerobatic pilot and parachutist
since 1942 engaged in the underground Nazi resistance
1948 an unsuccessful attempt to leave the country, arrested, spend three months in prison
joined the guerrilla groups in Beskydy, ...