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

Štefan Popjuk

* 1915 †︎ unknown

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, A communist interrogator, National minorities, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus and 2 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 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 and 3 more anniversaries

Antonín Popovič

Antonín Popovič

* 1924 †︎ 2008

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus

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, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev and 1 more anniversaries

Wedding, Ludgeřovice, 10 January1953

Marta Porubová

* 1936

People helping Jews during WWII, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR , 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army and 3 more anniversaries

Mstislav Pospisil, about 1956

Mstislav Pospíšil

* 1937 †︎ 2023

Volhynian Czechs

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, 13. 7. 1943 - Destroying of Český Malín

Věra Pospíšilová

Věra Pospíšilová

* 1935

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

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Zdenka Pospíšilová, portrait from 1938

Zdenka Pospíšilová

* 1933 †︎ 2023

Poland, People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), Radio Free Europe, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 8 more anniversaries

Posslová Jarmila

Jarmila Pösslová

* 1928

Participant in antifascist resistance

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Iryna Volodymyrivna Potapova, year 1960

Iryna Volodymyrivna Potapova

* 1940

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Relative of a political prisoner and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Stanislav Zeinert aspirant aviation Cheb

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Antonín Potecký

* 1934

French Foreign Legion, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, Relatives of important personalities, Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1940 - The Battle of France, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain

Mária Potočná

* 1954

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 10 more anniversaries

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