9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners (21)
9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty (5)
22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions (1)
27. – 29. 6. 1967 - The 4th Congress of Czech Writers (1)
31. 10. 1967 – Spontaneous student demonstration in Prague (1)
19. – 21. 11. 1968 – The three-day student strike and other displays of civil r (3)
5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring (40)
5. 4. 1968 – Formation of KAN (Club of Active Non-partisans) (3)
21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops (70)
22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ (1)
16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation (7)
18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation (4)
17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period (3)
Milada Králová
November 5th 1928 in Methodeyka
She spent the life in Kirillovka
One year she passed during the Second World War near by the Front in the Novorossiysk area
Deported with the parent to the work on the Crimea
After the war she returned to ...
political prisoner, born 16th November 1925 in Semice at Písek
of smallholder descent
in the army during February 1948, attempted to flee the country in May
arrested near the borders, interrogated at various places by the OBZ (Defence Intelligence)
sentenced ...
before 1948, an active member of the Scout Movement
participated in the Scout reunion in 1968
1970s, member of the exile Scout Movement Switzerland in the
1949-1962, imprisoned in Jáchymov and other prisons and camps
1951, one of the escaping prisoners from ...
a priest of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church (CČSH), born on May 27, 1944, in Istebné
spent some time in a German camp as a child (till 1946) where the children were used as guinea pigs for nutritional experiments
his mother died of tuberculosis after the war ...
born in Kupičov, Volhynia
witnessed the bombing of Kupičov
active in the Kupičov militia
1948, sentenced for distribution of anti-communist newsletters
speaks about the Soviet soldiers in 1968
lives in Maštov, Northern Bohemia. ...
an influential Czech actor and playwright
born September 11, 1936 in Německý (Havlíčkův) Brod
trained as a tool engineer, then studied high school in Teplice
began his career as an actor in Šumperk
through Klatovy and Pardubice he got to Prague
in the 1960s ...
born on 26th February 1949 in Nový Jičín
moved with his parents to Havířov
since his 16 years of age worked as a co-driver
military service in Přáslavice near Olomouc
foreman in the mine Antonín Zápotocký in Havířov, where worked for fifteen years
two ...
Born on January 19, 1923, in the village of Klapý nearby Hazmburk
Active in the People’s Party for most of his life
Until his arrest he lived and worked in Ústí nad Labem
Arrested in 1954 for political reasons
Sentenced to a life term in prison, released in ...

born May 10, 1930 in Josefov (Hodonín district)
December 22, 1948 sentenced to two years for distribution of anticommunist pamphlets
imprisoned in Cejl in Brno, in Uherské Hradiště, Pilsen-Bory, Dolní Jiřetín and in the Jáchymov region
in Cejl met Antonín Zemek ...
He was born in 1920 in Červené Janovice in the vicinity of Kutná Hora
His family moved to Prague, he was led to patriotism, joined the Sokol
He did his school-leaving exam in 1939 at the Czechoslovak Male Pedagogy Institute in Prague
He participated in the ...