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

Rudolf Peller as a joung man

Rudolf Peller

* 1926

Emigrant, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Germany

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Karolína Penkalová (Kajtochová)

Karolína Penkalová

* 1925 †︎ 2014

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Ezra Perl - student

Ezra Perl

* 1919

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Holocaust, Israel/Palestine, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Theresienstadt Ghetto

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Jan Perl

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jan Perl

* 1922 †︎ 2012

Veteran of WW2, Middle East, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

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, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

Anna Pešatová as a child

Anna Pešatová

* 1937

Member of an Illegal Church, Member of Orel, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR) and 7 more categories

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, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 10 more anniversaries

Libor Pešek in 2017

Master of Fine Arts Libor Pešek

* 1933 †︎ 2022

A cultural celebrity, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Art and censorship

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, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Dora Pešková in 1941

Dora Pešková, rozená Steinová

* 1921 †︎ 2020

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 24. 11. 1941 - The first transport to the Theresienstadt, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

Olga Pešoutová in 2016, 120th anniversary of the birth of Colonel Zdeněk Vltavský

Olga Pešoutová

* 1930 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, Diplomat, Victim of forced relocation, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, The Partisan and 5 more categories

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

By the Labe river in Hradec Králové, 1962

Miloš Petera

* 1937 †︎ 2024

French Foreign Legion, Dissident, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation and 6 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, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and 6 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Peterka_60s.JPG (historic)

Private Jaroslav Peterka

* 1925

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Relative of a political prisoner, People helping Jews during WWII

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR

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