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

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Petr Bachrach

* 1929

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, National minorities, Holocaust and 5 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps

Alfred Bäcker

Lieutenant Alfred Bäcker

* 1921 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier

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

Ingeborg Bahrová

Ingeborg Bahrová

* 1933 †︎ 2023

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Josef Balejka

Colonel Josef Balejka

* 1917 †︎ 2004

Veteran of WW2, western front, French Foreign Legion, Participant in antifascist resistance, Emigrant, Royal Air Force and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia

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Eva Balíková

* 1925 †︎ 2021

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, Death marches 1944-1945, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 8 more anniversaries

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Aviva Bar-On roz. Winklerová

* 1932

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Erwin Baránek

Erwin Baránek

* 1925 †︎ 2015

National minorities, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord

Hilda Bartáková (en)

Hilda Bartáková

* 1928

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, National minorities, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Wehrmacht soldier and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13.-15.2.1945 Bombing of Dresden, 7.10.1949 - Creation of the German Democratic Republic and 1 more anniversaries

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Edita Bártlová, roz. Tluková

* 1926

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Zdeněk Bartoň

* 1930

Internační tábor Svatobořice u Kyjova, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 2 more anniversaries

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