1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2 | Memory of Nations

Royal Air Force, 1944

Benjamin Abeles

* 1925 †︎ 2020

Holocaust, National minorities, Participant in antifascist resistance, Royal Air Force, Veteran of WW2, western front and 1 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

Ervín Adam

M.D.Ph.D. MD. Ph.D. Ervín Adam

* 1922 †︎ 2024

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, National minorities, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Scientist and 2 more categories

17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1941, August 27-28 - Mass murder of Jews in Kamianets Podolskyi, Death marches 1944-1945 and 6 more anniversaries

Hanuš Adamec

Hanuš Adamec

* 1928 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Portrait of youth

Petr Adler

* 1930 †︎ 2019

Holocaust, Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Urban Albert

Urban Albert

* 1929

National minorities, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Hungarian from Transylvania, Repatriated

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war

Věra Albrechtová nee Havlová

Věra Albrechtová

* 1932

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 7 more anniversaries

Madeleine Albright in 1947

Madeleine Albright

* 1937 †︎ 2022

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Politician, Relative of a political prisoner and 3 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 3 more anniversaries

Bohuslav Andrš in 1941

Bohuslav Andrš

* 1926

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Emigrant, National minorities, Czech minority in the former USSR

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR

Witness´s wedding photo

Marie Anonymní

* 1933

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Michal Babej

* 1932

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising

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