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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

Libuše Kovářová in a traditional costume

Libuše Kovářová

* 1922

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Naděžda Kovářová in 2023

Naděžda Kovářová

* 1936

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, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 1 more anniversaries

Libuše Kowačová

Libuše Kowačová

* 1922

Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Libuše Kozáková, 1958

Libuše Kozáková

* 1935

Déclassé, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945, Relatives of important personalities, Art and censorship, The underground and 1 more categories

22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia) and 1 more anniversaries

Recent picture from the senior home OHEL DAVID

Agneša Krahulcová - Herzová

* 1922

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944-1945 Hungary at the end of the second world war and 1 more anniversaries

Family photo; Gerhard Krakl is far right, 1950

Gerhard Krakl

* 1940

Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, The Sportsmen, Life along the Iron Curtain

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

Ladislav Král in 1960s

Ladislav Král

* 1921 †︎ 2021

Sokol, Scientist

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Leaving exam Gymnazium photo

Mgr. František Kraus

* 1927 †︎ 2021

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

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

Dorota Kravjanská

Dorota Kravjanská

* 1929

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

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