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

Vladimír Palička, war photo

Colonel (ret.) Vladimír Palička

* 1923 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Forced labour during the WW2 and 1 more categories

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

Miloslava Pangrácová

Miloslava Pangrácová

* 1937

Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Rudolf Parobek in the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia

Rudolf Parobek

* 1926 †︎ 2015

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, The Partisan

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Josef Parpel

* 1924 †︎ 2009

Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Repatriated and 7 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

Marianne Pasetti-Svoboda

* 1927

Sudeten Germans

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

IMG_3467.JPG (historic)

Barbora Páslerová

* 1930

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Czech Minority in Klodzko County (Poland)

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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Graduation photographs by Jaroslav Pátek, Pardubice, 1956

Mgr. Jaroslav Pátek

* 1938 †︎ 2024

Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Boy Scouts

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, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 5 more anniversaries

Mikuláš Paul

* 1925 †︎ 2004

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

graduation photo

Jan Pavlík

* 1937

A cultural celebrity, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Writer

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 1 more anniversaries

Ludmila Pavlovská, Šumperk, ca. 1956

Ludmila Pavlovská

* 1938 †︎ 2024

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, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR

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