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Kveta Eakin
Kveta Eakin was born in Karlovy Vary, in western Bohemia, in 1956. When she was 18 months old, however, she moved with her mother to her maternal grandparents’ home in Brno, Moravia. Her father, Arnošt, was a successful agricultural engineer, who…
Tags: 1968, Divorce, Education, emigrant, Helsinki Accords, Kankova, marriage, Prague Spring, refugee, Simunkova, Vcelka, Women workers
Ladislav Fedorko
Ladislav Fedorko was born in Spišské Tomášovce, eastern Slovakia, in 1946. His father, Jozef, worked as an engineer on the railroad passing through the town (which linked Prague to the Soviet Union), while his mother, Žofia, stayed at home raising…
Ludvik Barta
Ludvik Barta was born in the town of Liberec, northern Bohemia, in May 1945. His mother, Anna (maiden name Biedermann), was a Sudeten German, while his father, Ludvík, was a Czech who narrowly escaped execution after working for the Nazis as a…
Mantifesto for Free Czechoslovakia program, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1968
Program for the Manifesto for Free Czechoslovakia program at C.S.P.S. Hall on Sunday, October 27, 1968–English and Czech, 4 pages.
Tags: 1968, Cedar Rapids, Federation of Czech Groups, Iowa, program
Mark Zejdl
Mark Zejdl was born in Petrovice, a village outside Prague, in 1943. His parents owned a butcher shop in Prague; however, Mark lived with his grandparents in Petrovice until he started school due to unrest in the capital brought on by WWII and the…
Martin Holub
Martin Holub was born in Prague in 1938. His father, Ján, was a lawyer who, after the Communist coup in 1948, was not allowed to continue practicing and sent to work at a cement factory. He later worked in a photography lab and then as a librarian at…
Tags: 1968, Arrest, Arts, Charter 77, CVUT, Education, emigrant, refugee, Sense of identity
Matt Carnogursky
Matt Carnogursky was born in Bratislava in 1960. His mother Isabella had a job as a chemical engineer and his father Ivan was a mechanical engineer working for a construction company. After the fall of communism, Ivan served in the Slovak parliament…
Melania Rakytiak
Melania Rakytiak was born in Paris in March 1936. Her father was a Slovak laborer at a furniture factory while her mother, also Slovak, was a maid in the home of a wealthy French family. Melania’s mother died when she was only 10 months old. Her aunt…
Tags: 1968, 1968 emigrant/refugee, Catholicism, Catholics, Cierna Voda, Communist coup, Communist Party members, Divorce, Education, Family life, local, Lutherans, marriage, Marxism, Politics, Prague Spring, Refugee camp, school, Strecanska, Stredna pedagogicka skola, Surovce, Teachers, Warsaw Pact invasion, Women workers, World War II
Michal Tuavinkl
Michal Tauvinkl was born in Brno in 1953. He grew up living with his mother who worked as an accountant, his father who taught physical education and geography at a vocational school, and his older sister. In his youth, Michal enjoyed hiking with his…
Mila Saskova-Pierce
Mila Saskova-Pierce was born in Prague in 1948. Her mother, Miluše, was a high school literature teacher while her father, Vladimír, worked in a factory. She was raised in the Hloubětín district of the city along with her brother and her cousin, whom…