Witnesses starting with letter C

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Matti Cohen

* 1924

National minorities, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 Arab–Israeli War

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Božena Cohenová

* 1913

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1948 – Action "DI" (Confidential: Israel)

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Vasil Coka

* 1923 †︎ 2015

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Political prisoner in WW2, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev, 8. 3. 1943 - The battle of Sokolovo, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass and 1 more anniversaries

Bridget Cooper, 2023

Bridget Cooper

* 1956

Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, United Kingdom

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Doina Cornea

Doina Cornea

* 1929

Romania, Political prisoner in Romania

José Ángel Correa Pardo

* 1973

Cuba

Gheorghe Cotorbai

* 1945

Romania, Victim of forced relocation, Political prisoner in Romania

1948 - 1955 - Tito - Stalin split

Dalibor Coufal as a young man

Ing. Dalibor Coufal

* 1930 †︎ 2020

Victim of forced relocation, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sokol

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich and 4 more anniversaries

František Coufal at the military service, 1957

František Coufal

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Farmer

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Herta Coufalová with her brother Harry, who died in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Treblinka, 1933

Herta Coufalová

* 1924

Holocaust, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps

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