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

Hanuš Kotek in the year 1941

Hanuš Kotek

* 1920 †︎ 2002

Emigrant, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Veteran of WW2, western front

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord

Young Karel Kotek

Ing. Karel Kotek

* 1922 †︎ 2020

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Boy Scouts

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

Portrait of Eva Kotková. Prague, 1967

Mgr. Eva Kotková

* 1932

Déclassé, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ

On a walk at the military service, 1958

Ing. Vladimír Kotland

* 1934

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Young Miroslav Kotlas, turn of the 1940s and 1950s

Miroslav Kotlas

* 1933 †︎ 2025

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Jiří Kotlový in 1942

Jiří Kotlový

* 1927 †︎ 2024

Bata school Graduate, The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced labour during the WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 2 more anniversaries

Emílie Koudelová 26 years old

Emílie Koudelová

* 1926

National minorities, Sanitary worker during the World War 2, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence

Jan Koukol

Colonel (ret.) Jan Koukol

* 1912 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Participant in antifascist resistance

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 10 - 10. 12. 1941 - The Tobruk campaign, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Mrs Koutná during the war

Markéta Koutná

* 1921 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Emigrant, Israel/Palestine, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee and 2 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 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 and 7 more anniversaries

Bohuslav Kovalčuk

Bohuslav Kovalčuk

* 1924 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

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

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