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

Marie Kastnerová shortly after the war

Marie Kastnerová

* 1927 †︎ 2025

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Radio Free Europe, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 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 2 more anniversaries

Jan Kavan pictured on his British passport in the 1980s

Jan Kavan

* 1946

Diplomat, Dissident, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, A secret police collaborator and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 8 more anniversaries

Ladislav Kavka in 1950

Ladislav Kavka

* 1926

Sokol, 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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 2 more anniversaries

Professor, Dr. Benjamin Kedar

* 1938

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Holocaust, University professor

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 9. - 10. 11. 1938 Crystal Night, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 8 more anniversaries

Milan Kejzlar as a boy (in 1939)

Professor Ing. Milan Kejzlar CSc.

* 1928

Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation and 1 more anniversaries

Jaroslava Kellett in 1940s

Jaroslava Kellett, rozená Škarbanová

* 1921 †︎ 2019

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, People helping Jews during WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

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Jevdokie Kepková

* 1922 †︎ 2024

Emigrant, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Russia

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Hubert Kirchner

Hubert Kirchner

* 1936 †︎ 2022

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Victim of forced relocation, German minority in Poland after 1945, Memory of vanished settlements

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

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Matylda Klapalová, roz. Lapková

* 1922 †︎ 2019

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Political prisoner in WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Participant in antifascist resistance and 3 more categories

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Antonín Klečka

* 1924

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

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