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The Second world war 1939 - 1945

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20. 7. 1936 - 1. 9. 1939 - civil war in Spain (6) 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area (21) 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat (170) 2.11.1938 - 14. 3. 1939 - Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia (40) 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria (12) 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State (38) 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland (22) 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities (35) 1939 - 1941 - The first Soviet occupation of Galicia (3) 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR (175) 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 (261) 1940 - The Battle of France (44) 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain (27) 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR (6) 28.10.194 - 23.4.1941 Greek- Italian war (3) 25. 11. 1940 - The Patria disaster (7) 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign (31) 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR (121) 8 January 1941 - 27 January 1944 Siege of Leningrad (1) 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps (145) 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi (2) 6.4. - 23.4.1941 Battle of Greece (4) 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt (9) 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich (53) 10. 6. 1942 – Destruction of Lidice (26) 3.9.1942 - 2.2.1943 Battle of Stalingrad (2) 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín (19) 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo (27) 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev (44) 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia (1) 5. 7. 1943 - 5. 8. 1943 - Battle of Kursk (1) 22.02.1943 Deportation of Jews from Macedonia and Thracia (1) 9.03.1943 Saving the Bulgarian Jews from deportation (1) 23 February 1944 - Deportation of Chechens and Ingushs to Centrall Asia Soviet Republics (5) 1944 - 1945 Bulgaria joins the Allied forces in the Second World War (0) 17. 1. - 18. 5. 1944 - The Battle of Monte Cassino (2) 09.09.1944 - The coup d'état of the Motherland Front and the communists coming to power (2) 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord (14) 25 December 1944 - 13 February 1945 Siege of Budapest (1) 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war (2) 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising (71) 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass (185) 1. – 2. 1. 1944 - Battle of Biela Cerkov (33) 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia (412) 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk (71) 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration (7) 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising (83) 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII (48) 18. 4. 1945 - Zákřovský masakr (4) 1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from Poland (7) 5. 5. 1945 - vypálení Javoříčka (3) 9 May 1945 - 11 May 1945 Battle of Milin (1) 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps (104) 27. 1. 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz (6)

List of witnesses


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Captain (ret.) Vlasta Vyhnánková (roz. Pavlánková) (1921)

born on December 17, 1921, in the Silesian town of Ostrava worked as a seamstress in Ostrava before the war fled from forced labour with a friend of her in 1939; was on the run via Poland to the Soviet Union; got caught by a Soviet border guard after crossing the ... arrows 


Oldřich Vychodil (1920)

he was born on December 18th 1920 in Jáchymov u Nákla 1939 - he completed the Gymnasium studies in Litovel he underwent the one-year post gradual course held by the Business Academy in Olomouc town 1940 - He was admitted to Českomoravská Kolben Daněk company ... arrows 


Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Stanislav Vyskočil (1924)

born February 15th 1924 in Ukrainian Puchov parents originally farmers, in the 1930s their farm and property was confiscated December 23rd 1943 drafted in the Red Army as a sniper wounded at Rovno after his recovery he joined Svoboda´s Czechoslovak army in ... arrows 


Lidmila Výšková (1923) video clip available

she was born on June 22nd 1923 in Manětín town she is a professional hairdresser from January to October of 1943 she was forcibly deployed in Germany - Flak town; she was released home due to her wedding; she never returned her husband was a forester in ... arrows 


Colonel (ret.) František Wawrečka (Vavrečka) (1920) video clip available

born 3rd April 1920 in Hulváky by Ostrava started work at the Vítkovice steelworks after his apprenticeship 24th July 1939, illegally crossed the borders to Poland, there signed up to the newly formed Czechoslovak army as a volunteer after Poland was attacked ... arrows 


Private (ret.) Edith Weitzenová (roz. Nettlová) (1924)

born May 7th 1924 in Dresden in a Jewish German-speaking family in 1930 the family moved to Liberec in Czech borderland in reaction to rising anti-Semitic mood the family moved to Prague parents shortly in a refugee camp, children in children’s homes father a ... arrows 


Private First Class (ret.) Viktor Wellemín (1923) video clip available

born 24th March 1923 into a Jewish family in Prague 16th October 1939 - left for Palestine imprisoned in Camp Sarafand 14th May 1942 - joined the army Tobruk, Dunkirk war wound during the attack of the 28th of October treated at St. Omer and in English ... arrows 


František Wiendl (1923) video clip available

Born on December 31, 1923 A learned mason, studied the technical college of construction in Plzeň Joined the second and the third resistance with his father František Wiendl senior During WWII, a member of the resistance group Lidice, Niva in Klatovy, ... arrows 


Colonel (ret.) Jan Wiener (1920 - 2010)

born on 26. May 1920 in Hamburg in Czech-German Jewish family in 1940 escaped to Yugoslavia, after it was attacked he wanted to get to Marseille and then to North Africa captured in Italy, escaped twice crossed the front to the Allies in southern Italy, joined ... arrows 


Miroslav Wildung (1919) video clip available

born in 1919 in Měrovice nad Hanou imprisoned in Mušlov nearby Mikulov from October 1949 to February 1950 for illegal border transgression spent 9 months in the TNP (forced-labor camp) in Pardubice and Frýdek-Místek sentenced to 16 years for treason in May ... arrows 


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