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

Ing., Arch. Zdeňka Rešovská

* 1936

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, People helping Jews during WWII, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR

Ivana Richter in costume, 1950

Ivana Richterová

* 1945

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Industrial settler in border region in 60'

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Riedlová Marie

Marie Riedlová

* 1924

National minorities, Volhynian Czechs, Holocaust, Relative of a political prisoner

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

Otakar Riegel in the Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade in France

Otakar Riegel

* 1925 †︎ 2013

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord

Erwin Rieger.jpg (historic)

Erwin Rieger

* 1930 †︎ 2014

Sudeten Germans, Memory of vanished settlements

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Františka Řmotová, née Krátká, as a schoolgirl

Františka Řmotová

* 1929

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Primán Vladimír Rogl - 1947

Ing. Vladimír Rogl

* 1936

A cultural celebrity, Boy Scouts, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Journalist, Radio Free Europe

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, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 5 more anniversaries

Nadia Rosa

* 1938

United Kingdom, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust and 14 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain and 19 more anniversaries

Judith Rosenzweig, 1948

Judith Rosenzweig

* 1930

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Holocaust, National minorities, Israel/Palestine and 4 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Petr Rössler in 1948

Petr Rössler

* 1930

Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, National minorities, Holocaust, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 1 more categories

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, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps and 1 more anniversaries

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