GDR - outgoing passengers

Angelika Cholewa in police custody in the GDR. 1980

Angelika Cholewa

* 1955

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR and 4 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Katharina Dötterl

Katharina Dötterl

* 1981

Germany, GDR - outgoing passengers

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Annelore Finková in 1942

Annelore Finková

* 1940

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, German minority in Poland after 1945, Victim of forced relocation, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945) and 3 more categories

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Sandra Hildebrandt (Heinz)

Sandra Hildebrandt (Heinz)

* 1983

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, GDR - outgoing passengers, Germany

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Rosemarie as a child

Rosemarie Kraus

* 1941

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Relatives of important personalities, Sudeten Germans and 2 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Bedřich Kudláč

* 1927

Wehrmacht soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, GDR - outgoing passengers, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Soutěž Příběhy 20. století and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Miroslav Mánek, 1962

Pplk.v.v. Miroslav Mánek

* 1935

GDR - outgoing passengers, Déclassé, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Photograph, January 2014

Manfred Matthies

* 1941

Germany, Illegal border crossing, Nominees for the Memory of Nations Awards 2014, GDR - outgoing passengers, Political prisoner in the GDR and 3 more categories

13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall

Ewald Pechwitz, Pegnitz, 2020

Ewald Pechwitz

* 1938

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Astrid Pilz in 2021

Astrid Pilz

* 1940

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, GDR - outgoing passengers, Sudeten Germans, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 13.8.1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall

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